On Sat 19 Mar 2011 15:06, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > Let me ask you this: why would you oppose changing the scm_c_ functions > to use UTF-8 by default? If you're comfortable with ASCII-only names, > then UTF-8 will work fine for you, since ASCII strings are unchanged in > UTF-8.
This is true. Well, I think UTF-8 is the Right Thing, but it is complicated. This discussion reminds me of the luserspace problem from Worse is Better ;-) I think I was clinging to ASCII because C is ASCII. No one is clamoring for "if" in Spanish, much less katakana identifiers. I was thinking that since we could not reap the benefits, why bother paying the cost. But you have a good point that that might change in the future; who knows? If we do switch to UTF-8 in 2.2, though, then there's no real cost; there's only benefits. So perhaps we should just stop worrying about potential costs, and learn to love the benefits (!), and just do the UTF-8 thing. I'm still being a little cagey in these replies as I haven't gotten to the end of the thread yet :) Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
