Vincent Manis scripsit:
> Fine with me; you will notice that R4 immediately above the cited
> R5 discusses normalization. Let's go all the way, so the identifiers
> müllerstraße and MUELLERSTRASSE are considered equal, too, at least
> in Super-Mega-Scheme.
I agree as to Thing Two, and indeed rather expected NKFC normalization
in R6RS. However, it wouldn't be appropriate for Thing One, in my view.
> I'm not sure if I'm joking or not about this; I've always said
> that no language implements Unicode completely, and maybe it's not
> completely crazy for Scheme to lead the pack. Whatever we do, this
> needs to be thought out very carefully, lest we leave too much up to
> individual implementations (and thus make programs non-portable across
> natural-language boundaries).
Fortunately, the Unicode Standard has done the heavy lifting.
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