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Re: New multilingual text support
> > Guile is going to use that model, too. Encodings are layers on top
> > of ports that write binary data. Our port model needs (or already
> > has? I need to catch up with Gary) some sort of synchronization
> > primitive, so you can tell the upper layer, "settle things with the
> > port under you", frob the underlying port, and then go back to
> > normal. But I haven't thought this through completely yet.
>
> Gray streams from the CL world may be a place to steal lots of good
> ideas. Especially now that we have GOOPS, it might be possible to
> steal a whole lot.
Are "Gray streams" the streams described in the ugly green book?