Re: [PATCH] Wide characters

2009-02-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mike! Mike Gran 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 Characte

Re: [PATCH] Wide characters

2009-02-25 Thread Mike Gran
Hi, [...] >Yes. I think the best thing will be to let you experiment in a >dedicated branch, so we can progressively see things take shape. Works for me [...] >> SCM_DEFINE1 (scm_char_ci_eq_p, "char-ci=?", scm_tc7_rpsubr, >> (SCM x, SCM y), >> "Return @code{#t} iff @va

Re: [PATCH] Wide characters

2009-02-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mike Gran writes: > I've been playing with this wide char stuff, and I have a patch that > would move the encoding of characters to UCS-4. Thanks for the good news! > This is completely useless on its own, because, in this > patch, the internal encoding of strings is still 8-bit chars, and