Re: [Gauche-devel] character code conversion --- any idea?

[Shiro K. <sh...@la...>]

From: mi...@ne... (MINOURA Makoto)
Subject: Re: [Gauche-devel] character code conversion --- any idea?
Date: 04 Jun 2001 17:40:56 +0900

> How do you plan the relationship between the native
> multibyte handling of Gauche and that charconv routine would be?

In Gauche, you can have two different types of string---a sequence
of characters, or a sequence of bytes (I call them ``complete string''
adn ``incomplete string'' now, but I don't like them and will
change.)  If you convert a string to the character encoding
that is different from the native encoding, you'll get a byte string.

Since Gauche uses multibyte representation, the same data (byte
sequence) can be interpreted in two ways; each string object has
a flag to indicate the type (character string or binary string).

Other than the flag, no encoding information is attached to a string
object.  It is up to you how to interpret the sequence of bytes
you get.

--shiro