The basics service provides access to useful data structures and utilities; including containers, streams, sorting, timer, inter-service communication, 64-bit arithmetic support in addition to many others.

In various routines below, there is a string encoding parameter.
The possible values are:

• us-ascii
• iso-8859-1
• utf-8
• unicode-2-0
• gsm0338

In addition, passing in an empty string to the routines that use encodings is treated as utf-8.