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Re: String internals sketch
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Matt Wette |
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Re: String internals sketch |
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Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:30:41 -0800 |
> On Mar 10, 2017, at 7:31 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've been mulling a bit over enabling UTF-8 as an internal string
> representation. There are several interesting points to consider:
One point to consider on this topic is that guile is targeted (via the compiler
tower) to support other languages. Strings in ecmascript, for example, are
16-bit code points, not 8 or 32. I personally don’t care that the guile-2.2
hosted ecmascript can’t be a pedantic implementation, but it may generate
issues so some down the road. (BTW, the other area in which guile does not
implement ecmascript is in representation of numbers