Re: [Chicken-users] Egg for converting character sets with iconv

[Felix Winkelmann]

Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I  finished  writing  an  egg for  converting  strings  from  one
> character  set  to  another  (calling iconv(3)).   I  decided  to
> release it into the public domain.
>
> Assuming my box is on (which it isn't when I sleep), it should be
> available at:
>
>     http://anonymous:@svn.afc.no-ip.info:8000/svn/home/src/iconv-egg/iconv.scm
>
> I documented  it following  the template  available in  the eggs'
> page:
>
>     http://anonymous:@svn.afc.no-ip.info:8000/svn/home/src/iconv-egg/iconv.html
>
> Feel free to add it to the eggs' page if you deem it worthy.

Wonderful. Apparently you are sleeping right now, but I'll give it
another try later.

Many thanks!

> Are  there  plans to  support  multibyte  characters directly  in
> Chicken?  This  ought to be  done very carefully: i'd  rather not
> have them supported at all (ie. through my egg) than through some
> poorly designed interface.

No, currently there are no such plans. I'm not a big fan of unicode,
to be honest. But what I could live with would be an external library
(similar to Bigloo's ucs2 module).


cheers,
felix