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Matthias Koeppe <mkoeppe@mail.Math.Uni-Magdeburg.De> writes:

> I think that it is a bad idea to make Guile's characters
> encoding-specific.  This is not the right way to internationalize
> Guile.
>
> Instead, we should change Guile's characters to Unicode.  Then, of
> course, it makes sense to allow Unicode character names (and ISO 8879
> character entities) for #\ syntax.

Yep, agreed.  We should wait with extensible character names until we
have a good plan for unicode/mule/whatever support in Guile.

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