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Shiro Kawai <shiro@sqush.squareusa.com> writes: > I've heard the drawback of Unicode is it's not organized well for > converting to/from existing character set. That is a not a problem with Unicode per se; rather it is a problem with old character sets. > that means you need big lookup table for conversion Not that big - much smaller than the space you need for the fonts you need if you want to actually display Japanese. > But if you want to deal with multiple languages like Mule, Mule is just not suitable for Scheme, because it does not have a "character" concept, > and want it to be fixed length characters, maybe you need either > 32-bit representation or using Unicode and take big conversion tables. If are dealing with multiple languages, you will need big tables, whatever you do. --Per Bothner Cygnus Solutions bothner@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner