> Proposing to make Rust come with batteries included is proposing to change one of Rust's core values. Go ahead and write an RFC for that. I'll get my popcorn.

Again, my recommendation wasn't that, it was that the core team consider releasing "core" language features like Unicode support as first-party crates when they don't make sense as part of 'stdlib' not that I think they will. Feels weird to me that I have to rely on the goodwill of third parties to provide core language functionality like complete string handling.