C++Now 2018: Z. Laine “: Fixing std::string, and Adding Unicode to Standard C++ (part 1)”

— Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: — std::string has serious design flaws: its fat interface; its uselessness for editing of very long sequences of characters; and its complete lack of support for text encoding. This talk presents a proposed library, , a library of interoperating types and algorithms. tries to do two things. First, it seeks to address the deficiencies of std::