Add Unicode strings and symbols

This adds full Unicode strings as a datatype, and it adds some
minimal functionality.  The terminal and port encoding is assumed
to be ISO-8859-1.  Non-ISO-8859-1 characters are written or
input as string character escapes.

The string character escapes now have 3 forms: \xXX \uXXXX and
\UXXXXXX, for unprintable characters that have 2, 4 or 6 hex digits.

The process for writing to strings has been modified.  There is now a
function scm_i_string_start_writing that does the copy-on-write
conversion if necessary.

To compile strings that may be wide, the VM storage of strings and
string-likes has changed.

Most string-using functions have not yet been updated and may break
when used with wide strings.


        * module/language/assembly/compile-bytecode.scm (write-bytecode):
        use variable width string bytecode format

        * module/language/assembly.scm (byte-length): use variable width
        bytecode format

        * libguile/vm-i-loader.c (load-string, load-symbol):
        (load-keyword, define): use variable-width bytecode format

        * libguile/vm-engine.h (FETCH_WIDTH): new macro

        * libguile/strings.h: new declarations

        * libguile/strings.c (make_wide_stringbuf): new function
        (widen_stringbuf): new function
        (scm_i_make_wide_string): new function
        (scm_i_is_narrow_string): new function
        (scm_i_string_wide_chars): new function
        (scm_i_string_start_writing): new function
        (scm_i_string_ref): new function
        (scm_i_string_set_x): new function
        (scm_i_is_narrow_symbol): new function
        (scm_i_symbol_wide_chars, scm_i_symbol_ref): new function
        (scm_string_width): new function
        (unistring_escapes_to_guile_escapes): new function
        (scm_to_stringn): new function
        (scm_i_stringbuf_free): modify for wide strings
        (scm_i_substring_copy): modify for wide strings
        (scm_i_string_chars, scm_string_append): modify for wide strings
        (scm_i_make_symbol, scm_to_locale_stringn): modify for wide strings
        (scm_string_dump, scm_symbol_dump, scm_to_locale_stringbuf):
        (scm_string, scm_i_deprecated_string_chars): modify for wide strings
        (scm_from_locale_string, scm_from_locale_stringn): add null test

        * libguile/srfi-13.c: add calls for scm_i_string_start_writing for
        each call of scm_i_string_stop_writing
        (scm_string_for_each): modify for wide strings

        * libguile/socket.c: add calls for scm_i_string_start_writing for each
        call of scm_i_string_stop_writing

        * libguile/rw.c: add calls for scm_i_string_start_writing for each
        call of scm_i_string_stop_writing

        * libguile/read.c (scm_read_string): allow reading of wide strings

        * libguile/print.h: add declaration for scm_charprint

        * libguile/print.c (iprin1): print wide strings and add new string
        escapes
        (scm_charprint): new function

        * libguile/ports.h: new declarations for scm_lfwrite_substr and
        scm_lfwrite_str

        * libguile/ports.c (update_port_lf): new function
        (scm_lfwrite): use update_port_lf
        (scm_lfwrite_substr): new function
        (scm_lfwrite_str): new function

        * test-suite/tests/asm-to-bytecode.test ("compiler"): add string
        width byte to sting-like asm tests

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libguile/rw.c b/libguile/rw.c
index cb62b79b9..a9b4a329a 100644
--- a/libguile/rw.c
+++ b/libguile/rw.c
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ SCM_DEFINE (scm_read_string_x_partial, "read-string!/partial", 1, 3, 0,
 	 don't touch the file descriptor.  otherwise the
 	 "return immediately if something is available" rule may
 	 be violated.  */
+      str = scm_i_string_start_writing (str);
       dest = scm_i_string_writable_chars (str) + offset;
       chars_read = scm_take_from_input_buffers (port, dest, read_len);
       scm_i_string_stop_writing ();
@@ -140,6 +141,7 @@ SCM_DEFINE (scm_read_string_x_partial, "read-string!/partial", 1, 3, 0,
   if (chars_read == 0 && read_len > 0) /* don't confuse read_len == 0 with
 					  EOF.  */
     {
+      str = scm_i_string_start_writing (str);
       dest = scm_i_string_writable_chars (str) + offset;
       SCM_SYSCALL (chars_read = read (fdes, dest, read_len));
       scm_i_string_stop_writing ();