[R6RS] BOM-based codecs
Michael Sperber
sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Wed Aug 16 13:23:31 EDT 2006
William D Clinger <will at ccs.neu.edu> writes:
> The utf-bom-codec you are proposing would not do away with
> the need for the utf-16-codec and utf-32-codec that I have
> been advocating. Those codecs differ from the utf-bom-codec
> you are proposing in that they:
>
> * are Unicode standards
> * default in the standard way when there is no byte order mark
> * never default to an unexpected width
OK, I'l make that change. I'm not sure the FAQ qualifies as the
definitive standard, though. I was working off the table on page 325
of this chapter of the standard document:
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/ch13.pdf
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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