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My comments here are tentative; there's a lot here I haven't thought through yet. > I tried Guile 1.3 and found that multi-byte strings had been > removed. How does Guile plan for the internationalization or > multilingualization now? > > I prefer the Emacs-style multi-byte strings. Does anyone plan > for that? I don't know; it's a big mess. I removed the old multi-byte support because it seemed to me to be a bad approach to the problem. I dislike the way Emacs handles multi-byte strings, because it seems to me that it requires every piece of code which wants to manipulate strings to understand N different character sets. Any approach to multi-lingual support should use a single, canonical encoding throughout the system. My favorite candidate for that single, canonical encoding is UTF-8, and Unicode. I realize Unicode is unpopular in Japan, but I've never been given any convincing explanation for this.