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Arc snarfs the string implementation from MzScheme which support Unicode in The Right Way, as code points rather than octets.
by olavk 19y ago
Arc snarfs the string implementation from MzScheme which support Unicode in The Right Way, as code points rather than octets.
- prescod 19y agoSo should I infer that the only reason UTF-8 is mentioned is that the reader APIs do not let you select the codec? Or is even that provided in which case it is accurate to say that Arc supports Unicode-in-general?
- olavk 19y agoArc uses MzSchemes reader (it modifies the readtable slightly to support []-syntax). AFAIK you cannot access the reader API from inside Arc. The reason Utf-8 is mentioned is that it is the default encoding when MzScheme reads or writes files or streams. I don't think anyone at this point would claim that Arc supports unicode-in-general.