> Code units (whether UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, or whatever) are > bit patterns that are used to encode Unicode scalar values. > As programmers and as language designers, one of our guiding > principles is that bit patterns don't matter except where > they are forced upon us by the external world, typically via > i/o.
Or when the abstraction leaks, as string-ref does for UTF-8 and UTF-16. Do you think that being able to write string-find portably & efficiently is important? _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
