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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Tom Emerson wrote: >rgburger@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: >> For example, I can create a file called "\uD802.ss" in Windows. How >> would I be able to open this file in Scheme with the given proposal? > >Well, U+D802 is invalid, since it must be paired. That doesn't matter, really. The fact that it's in violation of the unicode standard does not make it cease to exist or solve the problem it creates. To put it another way, Windows allows characters that are not part of Unicode to be used to name files. If we restrict our character set for filenames to Unicode-only, we will not be able to open those files. That problem is real. Hmmm.... can we use read-byte and write-byte to read and write filenames? Bear