Bear: I'm having a bit of difficulty separating out from your
first set of reposts those things which are general comments
about providing Unicode support in Scheme from those things which
are specific objections to something in SRFI-25.

I'd like to ask you a favor, therefore.

Where you have objections, will you please present them more
clearly, ideally in short single-topic posts.   Perhaps
having the from:

   The SRFI-25 draft says:

	.....

   It should say:

	.....

   Rationale:

	.....

-t