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Claims that text encodes 5,000 years of human writing and therefore needs Unicode, not ad hoc subsets; recommends UTF-8 for storage and transfer, cites ICU (IBM) for real processing, and notes most languages already support Unicode while C++ currently lags. Reports a WG21 study group working weekly toward a C++ proposal for C++23 addressing text APIs, and calls out that Windows only got usable UTF‑8 support after about 25 years of debate.
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