Hello!
Mike Gran writes:
> On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 23:37 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> You seem to imply that `scm_getc ()' will now return a Unicode
>> codepoint, is that right? What about `scm_c_{read,write} ()', and
>> `scm_{get,put}s ()'?
>>
>
> I vacillate on this, but, I think the most
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 23:37 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > This is all going to be slower than before because of the string
> > conversion operations, but, I didn't want to do any premature
> > optimization. First, I wanted to get it working, but, there is plenty
> > of room for optimization l
Hello!
Mike Gran writes:
> Strings are internally encoded either as "narrow" 8-bit ISO-8859-1
> strings or as "wide" UTF-32 strings. Strings are usually created as
> narrow strings. Narrow strings get automatically widened to wide
> strings if non-8-bit characters are set! or appended to them.
Hi,
OK. I've uploaded a "string-abstraction" branch so that you can see
what I've been doing over the last couple of months. Currently, I do
have a version of Guile that uses Unicode codepoints for characters.
The C representation of chars was changed to scm_t_uint32 throughout the
code.
Strin
