From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Linas Vepstas Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: GNU Guile 1.9.2 released (alpha) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:29:27 -0500 Message-ID: <3ae3aa420908171129y3d3548bclb3193c740effc74@mail.gmail.com> References: <87iqgpkyzv.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: linasvepstas@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250533793 22526 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2009 18:29:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:29:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 17 20:29:46 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Md6xk-00056j-Jl for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:29:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38776 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Md6xk-0006np-1R for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:29:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Md6xb-0006mC-OQ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:29:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Md6xW-0006i3-SA for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:29:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60640 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Md6xW-0006ha-Fn; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:29:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gx0-f206.google.com ([209.85.217.206]:47848) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Md6xU-0005Ot-S3; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:29:28 -0400 Original-Received: by gxk2 with SMTP id 2so4114205gxk.7 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:29:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=NJ93OJ8pYLyOtLHaPYsYfWSRg56FR7y+xtEU8sWolwo=; b=tLRN2J6vuH+N50bhbdYnDgNww8op2RyuKxU9sBowQywn038yyf9WZg4gLGPFFZCqlw Nz1jan+yLBxD9cd0o7ZCRUvPBfoaGkLk4E8xQKglKYgQndh0zdvUqQAQHFzbUGQ/Lc2A WGHYrmwzC3cEVLil5WCxXW5DjivgpIqfgs4gQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=MMisQW6p/fCT86eyZnZrpswD6A0p3N0u+G2LK66k8d/FTrVkQ56gtSRMJ2NLXPwDDu NCkWHbCnEhgSfs3LpFca1qo91r9V8LaX3T2YI3+5Ed6KPY9asWVnXB/rFLMUiDEWMh7/ QKBnJPt2T17lFtsXfA21lkI4sEm5SnuuwmR00= Original-Received: by 10.231.14.9 with SMTP id e9mr2484184iba.45.1250533767918; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:29:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87iqgpkyzv.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:9139 gmane.lisp.guile.user:7412 Archived-At: 2009/8/15 Ludovic Court=C3=A8s : > =C2=A0** Incomplete support for Unicode characters and strings > > =C2=A0Internally, strings are now represented either in the `latin-1' > =C2=A0encoding, one byte per character, or in UTF-32, with four bytes per > =C2=A0character. Will this eventually move to UTF8? European languages typically use only a small handful of non-latin symbols, typically just misc punctuation. I recent dump of voice-of-america radio broadcasts I ran through guile used misc UTF8 punctuation ... backwards-facing double-quotes, ellipsis, etc. I'd hate to see this common case blow up to 32-bits per char just to accommodate stray punctuation. --linas