[cffi-devel] a thought on string encodings

[Yaroslav Kavenchuk]

Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril wrote:

>>Now that this is working, I will start pulling the
>>implementation-specific code into an encoding-aware 
>>%FOREIGN-STRING-TO-LISP function in CFFI-SYS.
> 
> 
> How are you going to represent the encodings?
> - use the implementation's objects?
> - introduce your own names?
> - restrict yourself to known encodings, e.g. UTF-8 (users on MS-Windows
> would appreciate UTF-16)?
> 

... and other encodings which depend from Windows locale.

Thanks!

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WBR, Yaroslav Kavenchuk.