[R6RS] draft Unicode SRFI

Marc Feeley feeley
Fri Jul 1 12:17:21 EDT 2005


On 1-Jul-05, at 11:03 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:

> At Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:58:55 -0400, Marc Feeley wrote:
>
>> I think we should iron out the differences, or give a better
>> rationale for departing from the C syntax.  I propose:
>>
>>    1) drop \e (and to be consistent, #\esc)
>>    2) keep \' \v \a
>>    3) add \?
>>    4) require 8 hex digits after \U  (I think \U will occur very
>> infrequently
>>       in code, so we might as well make it compatible with C99,
>> Python and other
>>       languages).  The value still has to fall in 0..#x10ffff.
>>
>
> This sounds right to me.
>
> Matthew
>

Fine.  In any case, I think we are close enough to agreement to let  
the SRFI process "do its thing".  So please send the Unicode SRFI to  
the SRFI editors and let the fun begin...

Marc



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