Scheme Request for Implementation 152,
"String Library (reduced),"
by John Cowan,
has gone into "final" status.

The document and an archive of the discussion are available
at <https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-152/>.

Here's the abstract:

  Scheme has an impoverished set of string-processing
  utilities, which is a problem for authors of portable
  code.  This SRFI proposes a coherent and comprehensive set
  of string-processing procedures.  It is a reduced version
  of SRFI 13 that has been aligned with SRFI 135, Immutable
  Texts.  Unlike SRFI 13, it has been made consistent with
  the R5RS, R6RS, and R7RS-small string procedures.

Note that there were some changes applied to this final
draft, including small changes to the document and test
fixes, too.  (Thank you, Sudarshan!)

Regards,

SRFI Editor