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Thomas Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> writes: > The Unicode Background section of the new draft has > > > It is thus appropriate to define Scheme characters as Unicode scalar > > values, which includes all code points except those designated as > > surrogates. > > That seems wrong-headed to me. Characters should simply > be codepoints, instead. A second ago you were saying that we should not be arguing about how high-level characters are. I think charaters should be graphemes. > If CHARs are codepoints, more basic Unicode algorithms translate > into Scheme cleanly. Those algorithms all deal with encodings, and should therefore, it seems to me, be in the interface between arrays-of-integers and strings. Strings are not arrays-of-integers! > If CHARs are codepoints, they have simple algebraic properties > in relation to integers. Except characters are not integers. Scheme is not C. Thomas