Hi! I have recently put some effort into working towards support of full unicode and R7RS compliance, as preparatory work for the next major release of CHICKEN. See
http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-6-roadmap for details and the current status, in particular with respect to incompatibilities with CHICKEN 5 that are to be expected. I also plan to clean up some obsolete C macros and move the "feathers" debugger into an egg. cheers, felix