Re: Spending time on Guile Emacs?

[Tobias Gerdin]

>> Did we ever address the mismatch between Guile strings and Emacs ones? >> We 
>> can't depend on everything being valid UTF-8. > > Guile-Emacs has an "easy" 
>> solution for this: there are 2 kinds of strings, > the Scheme strings and 
>> the Emacs strings.

In addition there is the text properties support. Unless one unifies the two 
representations (perhaps via a compile-time flag if Emacs will be statically 
linked with Guile) I think the challenge is to make it easy and not too 
expensive to convert between them.

-Tobias