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Tom Emerson: > Surrogate codepoints have a character property. They should be usable > in a string, and individually can be considered a character. Thomas Bushnell: > This is exactly part of the reason why char=codepoint is such a lose. Nah..... because: > Most code doesn't *want* to see this kind of garbage; Nobody disagrees. > it's an encoding > issue. Everybody agrees. > I want chars where the *computer* takes care of the coding. I > want chars that are fully-understood characters, not little pieces of > a character. Hopefully, since it's not clear exactly how to give you what you want, R6RS will give you an environment in which you can elaborate that idea in a portable way, propose it as standard, and have lots of implementors try it out in their implementation to see how they feel about it. -t