From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marko Rauhamaa Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 22:54:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87zihocx3q.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> References: <87lgtajpkc.fsf@web.de> <878tp967p4.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87shnhabln.fsf@web.de> <87zihp48k4.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487105677 1818 195.159.176.226 (14 Feb 2017 20:54:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:54:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: "guile-user@gnu.org" To: Linas Vepstas Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 14 21:54:28 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cdk7G-00088Z-26 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:54:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37130 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdk7L-0000S4-NF for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:54:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdk6v-0000NP-Dm for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:54:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdk6u-00030c-GJ for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:54:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:1bc8:1a0:5384:7a2b:cbff:fe9f:e508] (port=57082 helo=pacujo.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdk6u-0002zi-8I for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:54:04 -0500 Original-Received: from elektro.pacujo.net (192.168.1.200) by elektro.pacujo.net; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 22:54:01 +0200 Original-Received: by elektro.pacujo.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 14 Feb 2017 22:54:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Linas Vepstas's message of "Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:36:59 -0600") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2001:1bc8:1a0:5384:7a2b:cbff:fe9f:e508 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:13202 Archived-At: Linas Vepstas : > Unicode is just a bunch of bytes that are null-terminated. That is not what Unicode is. Maybe you are thinking of UTF-8, an ingenious way to map a Unicode sequence onto a byte sequence. Trouble is, there are byte sequences that are illegal UTF-8. While they are illegal for Unicode use, they are perfectly possible and valid as far as the (Linux) operating system is concerned. Marko