[r6rs-discuss] r6rs-discuss Digest, Vol 9, Issue 1

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 20:06:49 -0400

Paul Schlie scripsit:

> However I see no reason why such a standard would prohibit an
> implementation's reader/parser from being extended to enable it to
> dynamically transliterate identifiers expressed in an arbitrary alphabet
> to correspondingly unique ASCII identifier strings, which may be then
> read/parsed generically [...].

That is what R6RS provides, using \ as a reserved character in
identifiers to allow the expression of arbitrary Unicode text in
ASCII form.

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