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From: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU Guile 1.9.2 released (alpha)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:29:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ae3aa420908171129y3d3548bclb3193c740effc74@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqgpkyzv.fsf@gnu.org>

2009/8/15 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>:

>  ** Incomplete support for Unicode characters and strings
>
>  Internally, strings are now represented either in the `latin-1'
>  encoding, one byte per character, or in UTF-32, with four bytes per
>  character.

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




  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-17 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-15 13:06 GNU Guile 1.9.2 released (alpha) Ludovic Courtès
2009-08-17 18:29 ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
2009-08-17 19:19   ` Mike Gran

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