Wide strings

2009-01-25 Thread Mike Gran
Hi.  I know there has been a lot of talk about wide characters and Unicode over the years.  I'd like to see it happen because how the are implemented will determine the future of a couple of my side-projects. I could pitch in, if you needed some help. I looked over the history of guile-devel, and

Re: Wide strings

2009-01-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Mike Gran writes: > Hi.  I know there has been a lot of talk about wide characters and > Unicode over the years.  I'd like to see it happen because how the are > implemented will determine the future of a couple of my side-projects. > I could pitch in, if you needed some help. Indeed, it

Re: Wide strings

2009-01-25 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/25 Ludovic Courtès : > > I agree it would be really nice to have Unicode support, but I'm not > aware of any "plan", so please go ahead! :-) Indeed. > A few considerations regarding the inevitable debate about the internal > string representation: [...] But what about the other possible

Re: Wide strings

2009-01-25 Thread Mike Gran
> From: Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org I believe that we should aim for R6RS strings. I think the most important thing is to have humility in the face of an impossible problem: how to encode all textual information.  It is important to "stand on the shoulders of giants" here.  It becomes a matter o

Re: r6rs libraries

2009-01-25 Thread Julian Graham
Hi everyone, (Switching this conversation to guile-devel from guile-user, since it seems more appropriate to this list...) Alright, so I've been studying the van Tonder and Dybvig-Ghuloum implementations and banging my head against chapter 7 of R6RS, all with an eye towards mapping them onto Guil