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Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

> Well, I agree with all the examples you give here, but what about the
> following?
> 
> - dropped support for multibyte strings  [unless I'm misunderstanding
>   the old mailing lists, Guile used to have these !]

Yes, we had them, but nobody was really supporting them in C code.
Multi-byte strings were a distinct type from uni-byte strings, but
almost everybody just wrote code to deal with uni-byte strings.

(Rob has answered the rest already.)

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