> Can you point me to any projects that manipulate UTF-8 encoded in-memory strings and actually use a different type for it them? Glib seems to. https://devel

> Can you point me to any projects that manipulate UTF-8 encoded in-memory strings and actually use a different type for it them? Glib seems to. https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.37/glib-Strings.html https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.37/glib-Strings.html Though in complete fairness the type appears to be just a "bags of bytes" type and so could hold anything, it's really meant to hold UTF-8 (as you can tell from the functions that append/prepend Unicode chars).