From: Alex Shinn <alexsh...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Scheme-reports] LAMBDA and Unicode (Was: [r6rs-discuss] Scheme pattern matching & R*RS) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 07:56:25 +0900
>> For example, there are some languages (e.g. Python), >> Scheme implementations (e.g. Gauche) and editors (e.g. Emacs) >> that recognizes a line like "-*-coding: utf-8-*-" near the >> beginning of the plain text file. > > The advantage of the Emacs convention is it allows other > encodings (Scheme may outlive Unicode), and may coincidentally > work on some existing files since Emacs is so popular > among Schemers. But it seems a little hacky to put into > the standard. I agree. I think a srfi is suitable, for this is more like a "common practice". --shiro _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list r6rs-discuss@lists.r6rs.org http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
