Re: String conversion procedures
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe 04 Aug 2026 21:09 UTC
On 2026-08-04 11:04 -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> On 8/4/26 10:15, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe wrote:
> > I was also wondering about encoding. Must the argument to
> > 'string->iri' be a UTF-8 string? Similarly, should we expect
> > 'iri->string' to return a UTF-8 string?
>
> I believe the question is invalid: A "string" in R7RS is a
> "sequence of characters", not a sequence of bytes.
You're right, of course. I was clearly confused when I wrote that.
No doubt I was thinking of 'bytevector->string' and forgot what I was
actually supposed to be writing about.
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Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe <xxxxxx@sigwinch.xyz>