Re: Plan for support of UTF-8 in core system

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 19:07:22 +0100 felix.winkelmann@bevuta.com wrote:

> Bevuta IT GmbH has kindly agreed to sponsor some work on CHICKEN and I suggest
> to start on full unicode support in the core system, getting rid of
> the current solution with a bolted-on utf8 egg.
>
> This is certainly non-trivial, but necessary, as there have been numerous
> requests by users in the past and the current solution is just too clunky
> to be useful or efficient. Also, for better R7RS support a fully integrated
> solution is preferable.
>
> I have talked with sjamaan about this and collected some details of our 
> current proposal here:
>
>     http://wiki.call-cc.org/unicode-transition
>
> If you have comments or suggestions, please don't hesitate to share them here
> or extend the wiki page.

This is absolutely fantastic!  Many thanks Felix and Peter.  Also bevuta
for sponsoring that.

All the best.
Mario
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