> You are taking a simplistic view of parsing. There are plenty of
cases where you want to trigger on strings some of which you have seen
earlier, or on strings longer than N characters, etc. All of these
cases fall into the same problems as MBCS encodings.
Well, these are really hardcore cases, hardly ever needed for anybody except the regex library implementors 
I just caught myself that I can hardly imagine the need of counting characters (not bytes) in the string except for TextOut.
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