[R6RS] Source code encoding

[Michael Sperber]

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Feeley <feeley at IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

Marc> The beauty of UTF-8 is that plain ASCII files (probably most current
Marc> Scheme files) are compatible with UTF-8.  For UTF-8 + BOM you would
Marc> need to add a byte order mark at the beginning of the ASCII
Marc> file,

No you wouldn't, as I noted slightly below in my email in a part you
didn't quote: you can always tell a file in UTF-8 + BOM apart from an
ASCII file.

Marc> I feel a better solution is to allow UTF-8 and UTF-32 + BOM encodings
Marc> of Scheme source files.  As for end-of-line encodings, I propose that
Marc> all three end-of-line encodings (NL, CR, CR+NL) be equivalent.

If you drop UTF-16 (which is there mainly because it's the standard
encoding on Windows), you might as well drop UTF-32 and just use UTF-8
(sans BOM) as the only encoding.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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