> From: Per Bothner <xxxxxx@bothner.com>

    >> The needed punctuation, space, line-terminator, the 10 decimal
    >> digits, and the letters are pretty portable.

    > Not between ASCII and EBCDIC.

Yes, I see that EBCDIC is one graphical character short of what would
be needed.

Since EBCDIC support is critical, perhaps R6RS should drop '^' from
the "<special initial>" category.

:-)
-t