Re: Renaming `ly:wide-char->utf-8`

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 10/02/2022 à 08:26, Werner LEMBERG a écrit :
> > > Given that LilyPond uses Unicode exclusively I wonder whether we
> > > should rename
> > >
> > >     ly:wide-char->utf-8
> > >
> > > to
> > >
> > >     ly:unicode->utf-8
> > >
> > > or something similar.  'Wide character' is too broad a term IMHO, and
> > > the function doesn't do any character set conversions.
> > We are more or less close to transitioning to Guile 2 exclusively
> > which is going to obviate it anyway.
> Obviate what?  Will the name of this function change automatically?


No :-) But we will be able to spell (ly:wide-char->utf-8 1234) as either 
(integer->char 1234) or (for literals which is the majority of cases) 
#\x4d2 (where 4d2 is the hex representation for the number that has the 
decimal representation 1234).