[cl-pdf-devel] National language support and other proposals

[Marc Battyani]

Dmitri Ivanov <divanov at aha.ru> writes:

> IMHO we should replace all calls of (concatenate 'string ...) by
> (string-append ...) in all code places where arguments may contain
non-base
> characters. On LW, this is trivially matches lw:string-append, which
> constructs a string of the same type as the argument with the largest
> element type:
> (defmacro string-append (&rest args)
>   #+lispworks `(lw:string-append , at args)
>   #-lispworks `(concatenate 'string , at args))

OK, I've put it where it can be useful IMO.
Users of other implementations are invited to send patches that works for
them...

> Other improvements deal with PDF null object and decoding RGBs uniformly -
> see the attachment.

I've committed the changes to the repository.

Marc