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2 points by nex3 6172 days ago | link | parent

Arc actually does support UTF-8.

  arc> ("uber" 0)
  #\u
I imagine it only officially supports ASCII because it will be migrated away from MzScheme eventually.

Note: Those "u"s are supposed to have umlauts, but that's apparently normalized away somewhere. The point is, u with an umlaut is treated as a single character by the current implementation.



1 point by mascarenhas 6172 days ago | link

Well, indexing will most certainly break, but making an encoding agnostic reader/writer is easy, I hope PG does that when/if Arc goes standalone.

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1 point by nex3 6172 days ago | link

I'm sure it'll be agnostic, if by "agnostic" you mean that it just reads in strings as a sequence of bytes. It would be easier to do that than to check for non-ASCII characters and handle them specially.

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