Better Strings Study Group

The goal of the Better Strings Language Study Group is to provide more convenient and flexible string handling

Currently there are three predefined String types in package Standard (String, Wide_String, and Wide_Wide_String) and a collection of packages that support Unbounded, Bounded, and Fixed versions of these, plus some support for converting to and from UTF-8 and UTF-16 representations, etc.   The community is looking for something analogous to a "universal" string type which can be used in almost all current contexts where strings are expected, fully supports Unicode, and which is as easy to use as a numeric type.

Nico Roche of AdaCore has done a thorough study of various issues that pertain to improving strings in Ada.  A copy of this document is in the Better Strings Study Group Google-drive Folder, included below.