On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Andrew Pochinsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 23, 2009, at 7:35 PM, Chris Hanson wrote: > >> GJS subsequently suggested to me that case-folding should be just one >> of the standard attributes appearing at the beginning of a file, >> character encoding being another. > > I understand the risk of starting another holy war, but if utf8 were > *the* scheme encoding, it would not need be explicitly specified. > There is a problem of legacy code, of course, but if one needs to > insert the character encoding information into every file, wouldn't it > be as easy to recode the file into utf8 instead?
Well, utf-8 isn't a good choice for many languages. And, like case-folding, the default should be implementation dependent for compatibility. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
