CFFI-UFFI incompatibility: LOOKUP-FOREIGN-ENCODING function

[Victor]

On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 17:42:53 +0300, Luís Oliveira <loliveira at common-lisp.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Victor <bobbie at ua.fm> wrote:
>> there seems to be a minor incompatibility between the latest UFFI and
>> CFFI-UFFI-COMPAT: the LOOKUP-FOREIGN-ENCODING function is missing in
>> the compat package.
>
> What is this function supposed to do? Is its return value supposed to
> be passed to other UFFI functions or CL functions?
>

Due to limited knowledge of UFFI and CFFI it is difficult to tell. But
as far as I understand this function translates UFFI names for foreign
encodings into platform-dependent names.

It is used multiple times in UFFI sources i18n.lisp and strings.lisp

Thanks,
Victor