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@@ -4406,12 +4406,7 @@ the host's native endianness.
@cindex Unicode string encoding
Bytevector contents can also be interpreted as Unicode strings encoded
-in one of the most commonly available encoding formats@footnote{Guile
-1.8 does @emph{not} support Unicode strings. Therefore, the procedures
-described here assume that Guile strings are internally encoded
-according to the current locale. For instance, if @code{$LC_CTYPE} is
-@code{fr_FR.ISO-8859-1}, then @code{string->utf-8} @i{et al.} will
-assume that Guile strings are Latin-1-encoded.}.
+in one of the most commonly available encoding formats.
@lisp
(utf8->string (u8-list->bytevector '(99 97 102 101)))