International Character Sets in Guile

[Ian Grant <Ian dot Grant at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk>]

I'm toying with the idea of making a SAX interface module to libxml.  A simple 
interface should only be a matter of a few hours work, except for the issue of 
how to deal with international character encodings.  libxml returns UTF-8 
encoded characters, whatever the original document encoding.

Jim Blandy has investigated international character encodings hasn't he?  Does 
anybody know what the favoured plan is?  Or, in the absence of a favoured 
plan, what the problems are?  (I'm assuming Jim's too busy on a Big Secret 
Project to be able to reply, otherwise I'd ask him directly.)

Ian
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