[r6rs-discuss] r6rs-discuss Digest, Vol 9, Issue 1

[John Cowan]

Paul Schlie scripsit:

>   However I see no reason why such a standard would prohibit an
>   implementation's reader/parser from being extended to enable it to
>   dynamically transliterate identifiers expressed in an arbitrary alphabet
>   to correspondingly unique ASCII identifier strings, which may be then
>   read/parsed generically [...].

That is what R6RS provides, using \ as a reserved character in
identifiers to allow the expression of arbitrary Unicode text in
ASCII form.

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