<div dir="ltr">< Sorry ** doesn't look like u00e4 ><br><br><a href="http://www.supelec.fr/docs/cltl/clm/node181.html" target="_blank">http://www.supelec.fr/docs/cltl/clm/node181.html</a><br><br>Daniel<br><br><br>
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Dave Pawson <<a href="mailto:dave.pawson@gmail.com" target="_blank">dave.pawson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

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