On 23 Sep 2009, at 6:48 pm, Brian Harvey wrote: >> (and graphemes the default notion of >> what a string is composed of) > > 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.)
Indeed... probably best handled by making the Scheme runtime a "normalised Unicode demesne", so that all strings are normalised on input and all string operations preserve normalcy. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell-systems.co.uk/ Play: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ Blog: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/author/alaric/ _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
