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On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 13:08 -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > Code that works on compound characters *as a unit* can and should use a > string type. Code that needs to look *inside* a compound character, > needs to works with codepoints. I see the argument. I don't know enough to agree or disagree, but it does seem plausible, and it also seems to have worked for many other languages. > In Java, "character" is actually a Unicode code-point. This is how it > should be in Scheme, though we might want to replace the 16-bit size > by a 20-bit size to avoid the complexities of surrogate characters. Small nit: I seem to recall that the magic number is actually 21 bits, but in either case, I agree completely. Java (and several other languages, either for the same reason or because of compatibility) got bit by committing too early. shap