> Isn't a utf8 type redundant since utf8 can be sent as a string? Yes, the wire protocol would be identical to string. But the compilers could be smarter about generating stub code. For example, in Windows platforms, it could (optionally) use wchar. On real platforms :), it could do similar, or invoke the ICU functions to turn it into U_STRING's.
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