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From: Tom Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> Subject: Re: strings draft Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:01:07 -0800 (PST) > I specifically mean the R6RS recommendations to _not_ preclude that > interpretation. Yes, you should be able to read that string constant > from some Unicode stream and wind up with a one character string > constant. > > If someone writes a non-portable program that says "This program > assumes that all string constants are Unicode [and, in such and such a > canonicalization form, etc.]" then that program wouldn't necessarily > run correctly on your implementation. Ok. That's reasonable. --shiro