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MIT/GNU Scheme provides rudimentary support for Unicode characters. In an ideal world, Unicode would be the base character set for MIT/GNU Scheme. But MIT/GNU Scheme predates the invention of Unicode, and converting an application of this size is a considerable undertaking. So for the time being, the base character set for strings is ISO-8859-1, and Unicode support is grafted on.
This Unicode support was implemented as a part of the XML parser (see XML Support) implementation. XML uses Unicode as its base character set, and any XML implementation must support Unicode.
The basic unit in a Unicode implementation is the scalar value. The character equivalent of a scalar value is a Unicode character.
Returns
#t
if object is a Unicode scalar value. Scalar values are implemented as exact non-negative integers. They are further limited, by the Unicode standard, to be strictly less than#x110000
, with the values#xD800
through#xDFFF
,#xFFFE
, and#xFFFF
excluded.
Returns
#t
if object is a Unicode character, specifically if object is a character with no bucky bits and whose code satisfiesunicode-scalar-value?
.
The Unicode implementation consists of these parts: