From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Spending time on Guile Emacs? Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:38:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8E340CA8-33E6-4697-8707-5127AA140C21@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480545591 19457 195.159.176.226 (30 Nov 2016 22:39:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:39:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 30 23:39:47 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCDXX-0004TR-Ca for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:39:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46953 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCDXb-0004J3-7Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:39:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35361) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCDWR-00041o-EH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:38:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCDWO-0006zC-AY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:38:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=50795 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCDWO-0006yC-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:38:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCDWH-0001fz-Og for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:38:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:G/yV71j4Vj+FoFsmQ0xannV0azA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209845 Archived-At: > Did we ever address the mismatch between Guile strings and Emacs ones? > We can't depend on everything being valid UTF-8. Guile-Emacs has an "easy" solution for this: there are 2 kinds of strings, the Scheme strings and the Emacs strings. Stefan