This is for discussions about how to process UTF-8 text into Rebol elements.
Generally speaking, historical Rebol tended to break things up into separate parts more often:
rebol2>> load "(a b)/c"
== [(a b) /c]
Modern ideas have many more ways of merging parts into single elements:
>> transcode "(a b)/c"
== [(a b)/c]
There are a particularly large number of nuances about how TAG! is handled. As the tip of the iceberg, <> is a WORD!, and not an empty tag.