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Re: mbstrings




>>>>> "Per" == Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com> writes:

    >> But if you want to deal with multiple languages like Mule,

    Per> Mule is just not suitable for Scheme, because it does not
    Per> have a "character" concept

I am in favour of the idea of using Unicode, but just for the sake of
completeness I would like to mention that the XEmacs-20 implementation
of Mule does use characters (unlike Emacs-20 integer implementation).
-- 
Jens
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