Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:45:54 +0400
> From: Dmitry Antipov <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Why not just use ICU?

Emacs needs to be able to extend the Unicode code-point space for raw
8-bit bytes and for a couple of character sets that are not unified.
Can ICU support that?  If not, we cannot base our implementation on
ICU without a lot of redesign.