Hi Mike! Mike Gran <spk...@yahoo.com> writes:
>>The phrase "Unicode locale" looks confusing to me. This function is >>locale-independent, right? > > It is locale-independent. I've seen the phrase "Unicode Locale" used > to mean that the uppercase and lowercase of letters are those > found in the Unicode Character Database. They don't use any > language's special rules. I could have written something like "the > case transforms are the default Unicode case transforms, and do not > use any language-specific rules." OK, I wasn't aware of the special meaning of "locale" here. >>Are the new names standard? > > They are. They are from the Unicode standard which descends from the > codes in ECMA-48/1991. Actually a couple of the C0 control codes that > are currently in Guile differ from those standards. (I didn't change > them.) The Unicode and ECMA-48 have "lf" for "newline" and "ff" for > "np". Alright then. Thanks for educating me! ;-) >>> - /* Dirk:FIXME:: This type of character syntax is not R5RS >>> - * compliant. Further, it should be verified that the constant >>> - * does only consist of octal digits. Finally, it should be >>> - * checked whether the resulting fixnum is in the range of >>> - * characters. */ >>> + /* FIXME:: This type of character syntax is not R5RS >>> + * compliant. */ >> >>I think this comment remains valid, doesn't it? > > In the code I sent, I did add checks for the two conditions Dirk > mentioned. Perfect. Thanks, Ludo'.
