> Blame those systems, not me. Yes I completely agree with you, and if you don't need it, any unicode handling library is overkill and add more headaches than

> Blame those systems, not me. Yes I completely agree with you, and if you don't need it, any unicode handling library is overkill and add more headaches than simply handling utf-8 string as byte arrays. I just wanted to insist on the fact that some people will have to deals with theses kind of issues. And these issues are self inflicted, but it gets worse every time someone try to reinvent the wheel or rely on byte array when they shouldn't. Having a standard library in the language make the issue less worse: the core of the language still handle only byte arrays, and for the cases where it's not enough you still have only one library so you don't add your own subtly different mishandling of the standard by implementing your own. So memcpy is fine, but that's about it: for example, please don't use strcmp when you need to sort data alphabetically and please don't try to reimplement the standard algorithms designed for that, otherwise you will be part of the problem.