Re: [Chicken-users] UTF-8 support in eggs

[Alex Shinn]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:59 PM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:

> The same approaches also apply to eggs needing the full
> numeric tower, though with UTF-8 there's less chance of
> breakage when mixing eggs which do and don't use the utf8 egg.

I would say that UTF-8 has *more* chance of causing undetected
breakage, because UTF-8 strings have an interpretation as core
strings, whereas bignums, ratnums, compnums etc. don't look
like numbers to the core, and errors will be thrown.

Well, less chance of breakage, but more chance the

breakage goes undetected.  Possibly a much worse

situation, but it's possible to know a priori that there

won't be breakage, e.g. the non-utf8 egg is format,

and you're not doing any padding or truncating.  On

the other hand, it's pretty much impossible to mix

numbers and non-numbers eggs.

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Alex