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Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg
From: |
Graham Fawcett |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:29:48 -0400 |
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:01 AM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Graham Fawcett scripsit:
>
> > So, a byte string would simply be a string with a null auxilliary vector.
>
> That doesn't work. A byte-string is not a sequence of characters from
> the ASCII repertoire, it's a sequence of characters from the repertoire
> {ASCII set, characters numbered 129 through 255 with uncertain semantics}.
> Well, except on EBCDIC machines, where the repertoire is that of some
> unspecified EBCDIC code page.
Right. But I had taken "byte string" to mean, "string of one-byte
characters of unspecified encoding; possibly a vector of octets that
don't represent characters at all". Under this model, a null auxiliary
vector would indicate the lack of wide characters, nothing more.
Graham
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, (continued)
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, felix winkelmann, 2008/03/19
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, John Cowan, 2008/03/18
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Tobia Conforto, 2008/03/18
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, John Cowan, 2008/03/18
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Alaric Snell-Pym, 2008/03/18
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, John Cowan, 2008/03/18
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg,
Graham Fawcett <=
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Kon Lovett, 2008/03/18
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, John Cowan, 2008/03/18
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Kon Lovett, 2008/03/18
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Alex Shinn, 2008/03/17
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Peter Bex, 2008/03/18
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, F. Wittenberger, 2008/03/18
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Alex Shinn, 2008/03/18
Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Felix Winkelmann, 2008/03/15