It is not worth it because: * If you're not really serious about using strings, why would you care? * If you're really serious about actually doing things wit

It is not worth it because: * If you're not really serious about using strings, why would you care? * If you're really serious about actually doing things with Strings, you are gonna need to reimplement International Components for Unicode (or something similar in scope), and you have a free, libre and already working one for the "UTF-16 String Java" already. You don't have a working one for your custom fork with custom String handling.