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Ticket 29: port encodings

2011-01-24 06:57:53
WG1 - I/O
alexshinn
major
alexshinn
wontfix
source
closed
2010-02-23 17:03:07
defect

Do we support encoding and decoding text from ports with different character encoding systems? Different end-of-line conventions? Different normalizations? How are encoding errors handled?

milestone

Please see my comments on Issue 31.

It is my considered opinion that Scheme I/O is a mess and needs serious work. My general attitude on this issue is "no".

resolutionwontfix
statusnewclosed

WG1 voted to make no change to R5RS.