Re: Unicode ports patch

[Mike Gran]

> > It would be nicer if string ports were actually bytevector ports, and that 
> > they were locale-independent?  Or that scm_get_output_bytevector returned a 
> > locale-independent (ergo 8-bit or 32-bit) vector?
> 
> The latter.

The test suite requires an API for testing the correctness of the encoding
when writing or displaying a string in a given locale.  It also needs an API
for checking that a locale-encoded byte-array can be correctly converted to a 
string.

What would you suggest?

Thanks,

Mike