> > Ludo sez, > Mike sez, > > 1. IMO it'd be nice to have ASCII strings special-cased so that they > > are always encoded in ASCII. This would allow for memory savings > > since, e.g., most symbols are expected to contain only ASCII > > characters. It might also simplify interaction with C in certain > > cases; for instance, it would make it easy to have statically > > initialized ASCII Scheme strings. > > Why not? It does solve the initialization problem of dealing with strings > before setlocale has been called.
One thing I only just noticed today is that the first 256 Unicode chars are ISO-8859-1. Maybe then the idea should be to make strings where the size of the character can be 1 or 4 bytes but the encoding is always in Unicode code points, which in the 1-byte-char case would then be coincidentally ISO-8859-1. Thanks, Mike Gran
