Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:28:26 +0200
> 
> >> What about libiconv?  It would appear that parts of it are in the GUILE
> >> source tree (admittedly, under GNU control).
> >
> > libunistring calls libiconv.
> 
> Optionally.  And GUILE includes parts of libiconv and calls them itself.

Yes, that's true.

> I'm just pointing out that this is quite nontrivial to bring up to Emacs
> standards in string processing because so many dependencies are
> involved, most of them having a rather simplistic view of invalid or
> overlong byte sequences and characters outside of the Unicode range.
> 
> They don't allow as many character codes as Emacs needs to represent its
> various inputs.

I agree.