Mortoray, I'm inclined to agree with you. Modern strings/unicode has completely confused quite different things - storage (bytes), glyphs, typesetting, and lang

Mortoray, I'm inclined to agree with you. Modern strings/unicode has completely confused quite different things - storage (bytes), glyphs, typesetting, and language. So we're mixing single characters, with multiple characters, with character construction, with non-character emojis. We are almost getting away with this confusion by using brute force - "check out the CPU power of my phone". We're probably struck with it for interweb purposes, but I'd like to see a nice clean alternative, or a cleaned-up version of unicode ... something we could use in small embedded/IoT scale systems.