Re: [Scheme-reports] DISCUSSION/VOTE: The character tower Sascha Ziemann (07 May 2014 08:16 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] DISCUSSION/VOTE: The character tower Per Bothner (08 May 2014 01:35 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] DISCUSSION/VOTE: The character tower Alaric Snell-Pym (08 May 2014 12:22 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] DISCUSSION/VOTE: The character tower Jussi Piitulainen (08 May 2014 05:36 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] DISCUSSION/VOTE: The character tower Shiro Kawai (06 May 2014 21:04 UTC)
[scheme-reports-wg2] Re: [Scheme-reports] DISCUSSION/VOTE: The character tower John Cowan (06 May 2014 21:32 UTC)

[scheme-reports-wg2] Re: [Scheme-reports] DISCUSSION/VOTE: The character tower John Cowan 06 May 2014 21:32 UTC

Shiro Kawai scripsit:

> If you scrape general webpages, write a general email-processor, or call
> web apis, you do encounter those characters time to time.  Nowadays
> these kind of tasks are common enough and it would be cumbersome
> that every portable libraries in this genre need to handle in cases
> implementations doesn't support non-BMP chars.

Indeed.  I should also have mentioned emoji, which although only recently
added to Unicode are insanely popular.

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        --Eugene Field

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