> On Mar 10, 2017, at 7:31 AM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been mulling a bit over enabling UTF-8 as an internal string > representation. There are several interesting points to consider:
One point to consider on this topic is that guile is targeted (via the compiler tower) to support other languages. Strings in ecmascript, for example, are 16-bit code points, not 8 or 32. I personally don’t care that the guile-2.2 hosted ecmascript can’t be a pedantic implementation, but it may generate issues so some down the road. (BTW, the other area in which guile does not implement ecmascript is in representation of numbers
