> Makes you wonder why this isn't part of the C++ standard library itself. Plainly no need if there is a separate easily attachable library (and with permissib

> Makes you wonder why this isn't part of the C++ standard library itself. Plainly no need if there is a separate easily attachable library (and with permissible license). What C++ had to do - provide character (char{8,16,32}_t) and string types - it has done.