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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> If you had an Ada-like language that used a universal UTF-8 string
> internally, you then would have a lot of old and mostly useless
> operations supported for array types (since things like slices are
> mainly useful for string operations).

Just off the top of my head, wouldn't it be better to use UTF32-encoded
Wide_Wide_Character internally? (you would still have trouble with
e.g. national flag emojis :)