> So do you mean that > > ;;; -*- mode: scheme; coding: iso-8859-1; -*- > > should work for both Emacs and Guile?
Yes. In http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets the names of encodings labeled as "preferred MIME name" are likely to be understood by libunistring. There is some overlap with the emacs encodings. Until I get some aliases in there, the encodings "utf-8" and "iso-8859-1" through "iso-8859-15" are good choices that will work in both Emacs and Guile. Thanks, Mike