[r6rs-discuss] Case sensitivity

[Chris Hanson]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:38 PM, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:
> Chris Hanson scripsit:
>
>> GJS subsequently suggested to me that case-folding should be just one
>> of the standard attributes appearing at the beginning of a file,
>
> Would that apply only to Scheme source code, or to arbitrary data files
> containing arbitrary S-expressions?

It seems to me it should be the latter.  I guess this means the
attributes should be READable, though I haven't thought it through too
carefully.

John, I'm guessing you'd know: is there a way to detect character
encoding in R6RS programs?  I've always been impressed with the way
XML handled this, even though it's a kludge.