> > And most (but not all) Unicode string implementations use UTF-16. > > A disadvantage of UTF-16 is that character predicates like > char-alphabetic? break for characters above U+FFFF. > > Since this breakage is rare in practice, programs usually don't care. > They are only subtly wrong.
I'm not sure what you mean. char-alphabetic? is well defined; the encoding doesn't matter. There's a good overview of Unicode concepts and terminology at http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch03.pdf. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
