Ken Dickey wrote:

> It would be a *bad thing* if in going from one locale to another changed a
> working Scheme program into a broken Scheme program.
>
> So, please be sure that the specification of character and string encoding and
> of portable Scheme source code defines Scheme source as being locale indepent
> (by construction).

Huh?  What do you mean?  How can a source file containing Scheme
source code possibly be locale independent?  What if you're on
a system whose native encoding is EBCDIC?  What if you use
non-ascii character in string literals or symbols?
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