Re: [Chicken-users] UTF-8 support in eggs

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi,

On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 08:57:43 +0400 Yaroslav Tsarko <address@hidden> wrote:

> Why don`t just add (use utf8) line explicitly to all the eggs that
> handle strings? That will ultimately fix the problem and will clearly
> indicate that egg performs string manipulations and is capable of
> handling UTF-8 encoding.  Or am I missing something?

That'd be an option.  In my opinion, it would probably make things
slightly better, since ASCII characters can be represented by UTF-8 in a
single byte.

On the other hand, we risk breaking eggs that operate on latin1 text.
UTF-8 support may also affect performance-sensitive code.

Best wishes.
Mario
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