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Default to Unicode strings

See original GitHub issue

Would it be possible, when inserting data, to default to Unicode strings? That is, instead of having to use ExplicitUnicodeString, to force people to use ExplicitNonUnicodeString when they don’t want Unicode? I realize this might be a breaking change, but it seems like the right thing to do. Am I missing something that makes this a bad idea?

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Created 8 years ago
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vgrigoriucommented, Apr 16, 2018

Wow 😄

Thanks for finally getting this in!

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fubar-codercommented, Apr 16, 2018

It was a rough ride. 1 month of work went into the 2.0 release.

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