Hi, Let's say that one possible goal is to add wide strings * using Gnulib functions * with minimal changes to the public Guile API * where chars become 4-byte codepoints and strings are internally either UTF-32 or ISO-8859-1
Since I need this functionality taken care of, and since I have some time to play with it, what's the procedure here? Should I mock something up and submit it as a patch? If I did, it would likely be a big patch. Do we need to talk more about what needs to be accomplished? Do we need a complete specification? Do we need a vote on if it is a good idea? Pragmatically, I see that this can be broken up into three steps. (Not for public use. Just as a programming subtasks.) 1. Convert the internal char and string representation to be explicitly ISO 8859-1. Add the to/from locale conversion functionality while still retaining 8-bit strings. Replace C library funcs with Gnulib string funcs where appropriate. 2. Convert the internal representation of chars to 4-byte codepoints, while still retaining 8-bit strings. 3. Convert strings to be a union of 1 byte and 4 byte chars. Thanks, Mike Gran
