(Discussion moved here from WG2 ML.)

Pierpaolo Bernardi <xxxxxx@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
> <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Few standards later, when the deprecation takes full effect, i.e. those
>> procedures are simply not guaranteed to return mutable strings anymore,
>> implementations can:
> ...
>> - Reuse the external representation of strings for texts.  Reading a
>>   string results in a text.
>
> In the meantime I propose we use «this syntax» for texts.

I would think we almost certainly want to stick to ASCII for external
representation, no?

Is #"foo" used by any Scheme implementation for anything?  I seem to
remember it is, but don't remember which implementation and for what.

Taylan