Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg

[John Cowan]

Graham Fawcett scripsit:

> So, a byte string would simply be a string with a null auxilliary vector.

That doesn't work.  A byte-string is not a sequence of characters from
the ASCII repertoire, it's a sequence of characters from the repertoire
{ASCII set, characters numbered 129 through 255 with uncertain semantics}.
Well, except on EBCDIC machines, where the repertoire is that of some
unspecified EBCDIC code page.

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