Mike Gran <[email protected]> writes: > On Thursday, February 16, 2017 9:39 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>: > >>> You assume that Emacs concatenates strings by just splicing its bytes. >>> But that's a far cry from what Emacs does, precisely to countermand >>> such problems. > >> Good to hear. If Guile is to adopt a similar approach, it should pay > >> attention to these details as well. > > Guile stores strings as codepoints, and by concatenates and splices > strings in codepoint space. It never concatenates strings as bytes.
Code points are an abstraction while the discussion is about the actual implementation. -- David Kastrup
