Per Bothner scripsit:

> The argument is that we have nothing better that we can call characters,
> and if we use code-points we can use the historical Scheme functions
> and names.

+1

> > No, [fonts] are not [indexed by code-point].  They are indexed by
> > character.  Consider an accented character that is represented by
> > several code points.
>
> This can be handled the same way an ffi ligature is handled.  Are you
> proposing that #\ffi be a character?

In fact the presupposition is false: modern fonts are indexed by
arbitrary glyph indices.  They also contain a mapping from Unicode
codepoints to glyph indices for the benefit of naive renderers.

Before someone points out that there is a codepoint for the ffi-ligature,
I'll add that it is present for 1-1 transcodability with MacRoman and
is effectively deprecated.

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