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"Ivan Vecerina" <> wrote in message
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> std::string does not have built-in support for all possible operations on
> Unicode text, or for path-manipulation operations, or for loading inter-
> nationalized text from resources, or whatever processing you have in mind.
>
> But these operations can be implemented as non-member functions, and this
> is the right way to support them.
>
> Think of C++ containers and its library of standard algorithms, which
> are independent and orthogonal. A much better, lean and efficient design,
> than developing an ultra-container trying to do everything.

That was the sad point. It still needs to be implemented since apart reading
and writing code points everything else is quite a big task.

Alex