[Bese-devel] UCW and Unicode

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Jan Rychter writes:
> I'm desperate enough to actually dive into this, but I feel I'm missing
> something fundamental about CL -- namely, how to treat byte-data in
> memory (say, in a vector) as a utf-8 character stream. I can't find a
> way, and yet there should be one.

IMO, the correct way is to have a binary stream (since the HTTP is
actually a binary protocol),  and to use:

     #+clisp  EXT:CONVERT-STRING-TO-BYTES  
and  #+clisp  EXT:CONVERT-STRING-FROM-BYTES

There may have similar functions in other implementations.

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