From: Per Bothner <per_at_bothner.com>
Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Re: [Formal] formal comment (ports, characters, strings, Unicode)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:46:50 -0700
> > Using 32bits per character and put auxiliary language info
> > into the top 11 bits can be a plausible implementation.
>
> For some applications 11 bits may be enough. But if you want a
> language property as well as a font property, why then you're
> already out of bits.
Yes, I'm talking about "some applications", where font
properties don't matter but language tags do.
The point comes down to this: Should R6RS be permissive for
such specific extensions or not.
--shiro
Received on Mon Mar 26 2007 - 16:48:39 UTC