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2013-07-07 03:20:44
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WG1 - Core
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Ray Dillinger writes:
Many of our text-handling routines are visibly redundant or inelegant in the presence of Unicode. They exist for consistency with an earlier design and are not fully appropriate to a design taking into account the current reality. As such they could and should have been one of the first things we examined when asked to produce a simpler language. These issues could not be addressed under the charter of WG1.
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524
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alexshinn
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major
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cowan
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wontfix
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closed
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The draft's text-handling procedures are wrong in a Unicode world
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2013-05-13 17:14:27
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defect
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Change at time 2013-07-07 03:20:44
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The WG decided by unanimous consent to take no action on this ticket.
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Change at time 2013-07-07 03:20:44
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Change at time 2013-05-13 17:14:47
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They could be and indeed were examined. If I had my druthers, R7RS-small wouldn't have characters at all, only immutable strings (some of them containing just a single code point). See [http://lists.scheme-reports.org/pipermail/scheme-reports/2013-May/003396.html my ballot] for a discussion of the difference between the "best possible result" and "the best result possible".
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