Brian Harvey scripsit: > So, does EQUAL? return true for two characters that look the same but are > represented by different Unicode codes? (I vote yes, even though it's > likely to be time-consuming.)
Definitely not. There is little utility to treating A, Alpha, and Cyrillic A all the same. For when visual identification is very important, as in DNS names, http://unicode.org/reports/tr39/data/confusables.txt is your friend and can be implemented as a kind of special-purpose equality. -- Said Agatha Christie / To E. Philips Oppenheim John Cowan "Who is this Hemingway? / Who is this Proust? [email protected] Who is this Vladimir / Whatchamacallum, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan This neopostrealist / Rabble?" she groused. --George Starbuck, Pith and Vinegar _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
