Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes

[John Cowan]

Felix Winkelmann scripsit:

> Hm. Wasn't wchar_t on Windows 16 bits? Do they use UTF-16 there?

Yes, they do nowadays.  Of course, so do the JVM and the CLR.

> The internal representation is a different issue compared to the
> external encoding. It would be nice if we could separate these two
> things somehow.

We don't want to couple them so tightly that we can't do anything else.
But aligning with the common case is no bad thing.

> Also, unicode-related discussion quickly get out of hand. So let's
> postpone this until later.

Sure.  The Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement has infinite
patience.  The future belongs to us (as well as much of the present,
which was my point).  Today the world hears us, tomorrow the Chicken!

:-)

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