well, basic string support would be fine, wouldn't it? the C standard still having no proper string library for decades didn't harm its popularity, but still.

well, basic string support would be fine, wouldn't it? the C standard still having no proper string library for decades didn't harm its popularity, but still. you cannot find non-normalized substrings (strings are Unicode nowadays), utf-8 is unsupported. coreutils and almost all tools don't have proper string (=Unicode) support.