[Openmcl-devel] Plans for Unicode support within OpenMCL?

[James Anderson]

hello;

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> From: openmcl-devel-bounces at clozure.com
> [mailto:openmcl-devel-bounces at clozure.com]On Behalf Of Takehiko Abe
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12.01
> To: Gary Byers
> Cc: openmcl-devel at clozure.com
> Subject: Re: [Openmcl-devel] Plans for Unicode support within OpenMCL?
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> Unicode has combining characters and covers lots of scripts/writing
> systems. Handling them is inherently hard and having characters
> with unicode direct codepoints does not make it easier much, imo.
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aha! interesting to hear. that means you have been satisfied with apple's utf-16
encoding and never really missed "knowing" where anything specific is in the
string?

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