[r6rs-discuss] unicode (re comment #134)

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Mon Dec 18 00:43:37 2006

Shiro Kawai scripsit:

> I agree to Tom Lord that an implementation may not make char the
> same as Unicode code points. As one concrete example, Gauche
> can be compiled to use JISX0213 as its "native" character set,
> which includes characters that are not a part of Unicode.

(To clarify: there are only 25 such characters, and all of them have
two-character Unicode equivalents, so every JIS X0213 *string* has
a Unicode *string* equivalent.)

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