Value proposition, we sends ridiculous low price products to you from merchants. We facilitate the transactions. In return, your personal data’s value will be extracted by us. A high level bargain of privacy disguised in tech.
P.R.China has a strong policy to control information and policy restriction. What do you think of the possible problems for YC to cooperate with Chinese companies? Does that impede the growth of a startup?
It's hard but needed to differentiate between UTF-16 and UChar byte array. UChar byte array are not essentially an well-formed UTF-16 string. Beyond, why bother use UnicodeString? It's fairly easy to use. It covers the detail from your sight.
It's indeed super cool to see a modern Unicode C++ library. But anyway, is it really useful for production usage? The answer could be no. In contrast, ICU was old, battle-tested, compact and well-tested.