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From: Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: String internals sketch
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:30:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1D6E805B-EC15-491D-AD8F-C8F6212DA54B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efy52lnp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>


> On Mar 10, 2017, at 7:31 AM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> I've been mulling a bit over enabling UTF-8 as an internal string
> representation.  There are several interesting points to consider:

One point to consider on this topic is that guile is targeted (via the compiler tower) to support other languages.   Strings in ecmascript, for example, are 16-bit code points, not 8 or 32.  I personally don’t care that the guile-2.2 hosted ecmascript can’t be a pedantic implementation, but it may generate issues so some down the road.  (BTW, the other area in which guile does not implement ecmascript is in representation of numbers




  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-11  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-10 15:31 String internals sketch David Kastrup
2017-03-10 16:08 ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-10 16:51   ` David Kastrup
2017-03-15 15:46   ` David Kastrup
2017-03-11  0:30 ` Matt Wette [this message]
2017-03-11  6:44   ` David Kastrup

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