[cl-ppcre-devel] New CL-UNICODE release 0.1.1

[Daniel Gackle]

< Sorry ** doesn't look like u00e4 >

http://www.supelec.fr/docs/cltl/clm/node181.html

Daniel


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/7/24 Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de>:
>
> > I think you are confused.  In Lisp, characters and strings are really
> > characters and strings.
>
> >  CL-USER 6 > (char-name **)
> >  "Latin-Small-Letter-A-With-Diaeresis"
>
> Sorry ** doesn't look like u00e4
>
>
>
> >
> > If you want to convert between octets and characters (that's where
> > encodings like UTF-8 make sense), most CL implementations have
> > facilities for this out of the box.  For portable solutions see for
> > example here:
> >
> >  http://weitz.de/flexi-streams/
> >  http://common-lisp.net/project/babel/
>
> I don't want to convert, I want to read utf-8 from a file,
> work in 'characters', build them into strings
> and write them back to file, in utf-8
>
>
>
>
> >> Any reason lisp should not enjoy that level of internationalisation?
> >
> > It does already.
>
>
> seems we have a different definition of 'working'.
>
> regards
>
>
>
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