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Wide strings
From: |
Mike Gran |
Subject: |
Wide strings |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:15:47 -0800 (PST) |
Hi. I know there has been a lot of talk about wide characters and
Unicode over the years. I'd like to see it happen because how the are
implemented will determine the future of a couple of my side-projects.
I could pitch in, if you needed some help.
I looked over the history of guile-devel, and there has been a
tremendous amount of discussion about it. Also, the Schemes seem to
be each inventing their own solution.
Tom Lord's 2003 proposal
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2003-11/msg00036.html
Marius Vollmer's idea
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2005-08/msg00029.html
R6RS
http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib-Z-H-2.html#node_chap_1
MIT Scheme
http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/mit-scheme-ref/Internal-Representation-of-Characters.html
There has also been some back-and-forth about to what extent the
internal representation of strings should be accessible, whether the
internal representation should be a vector or if it can be something
more efficient, and how not to completely break regular expressions.
Also, there is the question as to whether a wide character is a
codepoint or a grapheme.
Is there a current proposal on the table for how to reach this?
If you suffering from a dearth of opinions, I certainly have some
ideas.
- Wide strings,
Mike Gran <=
- Re: Wide strings, Ludovic Courtès, 2009/01/25
- Re: Wide strings, Neil Jerram, 2009/01/25
- Re: Wide strings, Mike Gran, 2009/01/25
- Re: Wide strings, Mike Gran, 2009/01/26
- Re: Wide strings, Ludovic Courtès, 2009/01/26
- Re: Wide strings, Mike Gran, 2009/01/27
- Re: Wide strings, Mike Gran, 2009/01/27
- Re: Wide strings, Andy Wingo, 2009/01/27
- Re: Wide strings, Ludovic Courtès, 2009/01/27