Re: [Chicken-users] Egg for converting character sets with iconv

[felix]

Joerg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> > You mean a separate disjoint datatype? No problem. But how transparent
>
>
> exactly
>
>
> > should string operations be? Would a separate set of operations
> > (utf8-string-ref, ... - the actual names are not important right now)
> > be acceptable?
>
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> For me, yes.  Since I could eventually overwrite the operations like
> this:
>
> (let ((original string-ref))
>  (set! string-ref
>    (lambda (s i)
>      ((if (utf8-string? s) utf8-string-ref original) s i))))
>
> that is, could I, really?

Yes, you could. But in compiled code you have to tell the compiler
not to inline string operations (for example with
"(declare (not standard-bindings string-ref ...))").

Anyway, a library would be a start. Unfortunately I'm not a unicode
export, so any help would be appreciated.


cheers,
felix