There's actually a proposal with a decent amount of support to add utf-8 strings to C#. Probably won't be added to the language for another 3 or 4 years (if eve

There's actually a proposal with a decent amount of support to add utf-8 strings to C#. Probably won't be added to the language for another 3 or 4 years (if ever) but it's not outside the realm of possibility. Edit: The proposal for anyone interested https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/933 https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/933