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On Sunday, 16 June 2019 00:59:41 UTC+1, Micah Waddoups  wrote:

> I have a suggestion, and I am sorry I haven't searched thoroughly to see if someone has suggested this already, though I don't believe they have.  Unicode 

I have, search for it.

>and UTF are supported very well, however, the support is simply limited to the 

No, Ada's support for Unicode is bad, very bad, and broken. There is an article about Ada's Unicode support by someone online, can't remember, thinks it was by Flyx.

Ada needs a full Unicode implementation and not one that layer after layer of abstration which makes it heavy as fuck, sorry League, you're out!

All the existing string stuff needs to be redone with traits and moved into string encoding type stuff.

Luke.