[r6rs-discuss] Strings

From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak>
Date: Sat Mar 24 09:57:01 2007

Dnia 21-03-2007, ?ro o godzinie 15:30 -0400, Jason Orendorff napisa?(a):

> And most (but not all) Unicode string implementations use UTF-16.

A disadvantage of UTF-16 is that character predicates like
char-alphabetic? break for characters above U+FFFF.

Since this breakage is rare in practice, programs usually don't care.
They are only subtly wrong.

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