Scheme Request for Implementation 175,
"ASCII character library,"
by Lassi Kortela,
is now available for discussion.

Its draft and an archive of the ongoing
discussion are available at
<https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-175/>.

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Here's the abstract:

  This SRFI defines ASCII-only
  equivalents to many of the character
  procedures in standard Scheme plus a
  few extra ones.  Recent Scheme
  standards are based around Unicode but
  the significant syntactic elements in
  many file formats and network
  protocols are all ASCII.  Such
  low-level code can be faster and
  easier to understand with ASCII
  primitives.

Regards,

SRFI Editor