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Stallman wants Guile to use MULE's encoding, which I think is horrible. I think UTF-8 and Unicode are great. There's no nice way to deal with variable-length characters. string-length and string-ref are just hopeless, if you want to preserve the properties promised by R4RS. Wide characters are better, but Stallman is opposed to them. He feels they will waste memory (not a good argument --- sometimes memory is worth wasting) and will make interoperation with ordinary C code harder (this is a good point).