Lyberta:
> JeanHeyd Meneide:
>> Absolutely, the default should be basic_string.
>
> I disagree but I didn't write a proposal yet so we'll talk later.

Although here's one of the big arguments why std::basic_string is really
badly designed:

http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/084.htm

And then if we note that Unicode code units have almost zero semantics,
we can remove 80% of the API.