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Jim Blandy writes: > Stallman wants Guile to use MULE's encoding, which I think is > horrible. I think UTF-8 and Unicode are great. UTF-8 and Unicode are the obvious ASCII of the future. That is what everyone should be moving to. > 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). The Plan 9 people have good C stuff for dealing with Unicode and UTF-8. I'm pushing to have NetBSD adopt some of this stuff in the future. Perry