Mike Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that port types are inherently 8-bit, right? > So to make this work, the ports will have to store and > transmit characters as UTF-8 encoded data. The > 'fill_input' function will have to convert UTF-32 to > UTF-8 and then cache them, passing them 1 byte at a > time as requested. The 'write' function will receive > data 1 byte at a time and buffer it. It will only > write the character when a complete UTF-32 codepoint > has been received.
Alternatively, you could assume an 8-bit character set (either from CTYPE, or force Latin-1), recode output to UTF-32, and either ignore or deliver nulls or something else convenient (maybe space?) for characters outside the 8-bit character set. This would be reasonable as Guile characters are 8-bit anyway. -- But you know how reluctant paranormal phenomena are to reveal themselves when skeptics are present. --Robert Sheaffer, SkI 9/2003
