> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:18:59 +0200 > From: Daniel Krueger <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] > > I think strings should be encoding `independent', so you don't have to > mind that if you don't need to, and if you're working with a special > encoding you're working on a representation of the `text' as a number > of characters encoded in some numbers, so you use a bytevector.
That would do, I think. > The only thing I'm not sure about is whether guile supports encoding a > string (into a bytevector) in some other format than UTF-8, so if > there don't exist other procedures I would suggest adding a string to > bytevector decoder which takes an encoder and the encoders (or just > procedures which convert the string directly into a bytevector in a > specific encoding). > > WDYT? Sounds like a plan to me ;-)
