Unicode string libraries


I am trying to figure out how best to represent strings in a new language
and am finding it vastly harder than I had imagined. What do other language
implementations (e.g. Perl, Python, Ruby) with rich string libraries do? Do
they really just reinvent the wheel when it comes to sequences of
characters?

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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