Ludo sez,
Mike sez,
1. IMO it'd be nice to have ASCII strings special-cased so that they
are always encoded in ASCII. This would allow for memory savings
since, e.g., most symbols are expected to contain only ASCII
characters. It might also simplify interaction with C in
Hey hackers,
In an attack of CADT[0], I have decided to move Guile-lib to
savannah.nongnu.org, so that Guile contributors can more easily
contribute to Guile-lib. I've also migrated to Git.
As part of the savannah submission process, Sebastian Gerhardt
rightfully pointed out some schitzophrenia
Hello,
Ludo' sez
Mike Gran spk...@yahoo.com writes:
BTW, Gnulib has a wealth of modules that could be helpful here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html#posix_ext_unicode
I used a few of them in Guile-R6RS-Libs to implement `string-utf8'
and such like.
The Gnulib routines
I said
(Though, such a scheme would force scm_take_locale_string to become
scm_take_iso88591_string.)
which is incorrect. Under the proposed scheme, scm_take_locale_string
would only be able to use that storage directly if it happened to be
ASCII or 8859-1.
