[PATCH] Wide characters

[Mike Gran]

Hi-

I've been playing with this wide char stuff, and I have a patch that
would move the encoding of characters to UCS-4.

This is completely useless on its own, because, in this
patch, the internal encoding of strings is still 8-bit chars, and,
thus, there is no way to use the wide characters in strings.

It is all pretty simple.  Since the internal representation of chars
becomes UCS-4, I used scm_t_uint32 as the char type, and I removed the
code that supported EBCDIC-encoded characters.  I changed the tables
of character names to deal with more names and discontiguous control
characters.  And, as a temporary kludge, I made a macro
SCM_MAKE_8BIT_CHAR to cast the 8-bit characters used in strings to a
scm_t_uint32.  Also, I used functions from the Gnulib unicase and
unictype modules for character properties, including a couple that
Bruno Haible of Gnulib was kind enough to create for me.

Thanks,

Mike

The gnulib invocation for this was

gnulib-tool --import --dir=. --lib=libgnu --source-base=lib
--m4-base=m4 --doc-base=doc --tests-base=tests --aux-dir=build-aux
--lgpl --libtool --macro-prefix=gl --no-vc-files 
alloca-opt autobuild count-one-bits extensions full-read full-write
strcase strftime unicase/tolower unicase/toupper
unictype/property-alphabetic unictype/property-lowercase
unictype/property-numeric unictype/property-uppercase
unictype/property-white-space

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