[cl-typesetting-devel] Unicode support feedback needed

[Marc Battyani]

"Andras Simon" <andras at renyi.hu> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Marc Battyani wrote:
>
> > Hi Andras,
> >
> > > With
> > >
> > > (defmacro unicode-string-type ()
> > >   #+lispworks ''lispworks:simple-text-string
> > >   #+sbcl ''simple-string
> > >   #+(or allegro clisp) ''simple-base-string
> > >   #-(or lispworks sbcl clisp allegro) ''string)
> >
> > Great! I will put this.
> >
> > > I could only make Allegro (8.0 beta) happy. The result of
> > > TYPESET::UNICODE-HELLO seems to be identical (not byte for byte, but
> > that's
> > > probably due to compression) to LW's output.
> > >
> > > CLISP chokes on Salza:
> >
> > OK, can you try without compression ?
> > (setf pdf:*compress-streams* nil)
>
> Not yet, because CLISP's got a problem with cl-pdf/pdf-geom.lisp too. I'll
> look into these offending files later today.
>
> >
> > > Compiling file
> > /home/simon/lisp_packages/marcb/cl-pdf/salza/compressor.lisp ...
> > > *** - invalid byte sequence #xCF #xEE in CHARSET:UTF-8 conversion
> > >
> > > SBCL's output is definitely very different from what LW and Allegro
> > produces,
> > > even though
> > >
> > >     (coerce (list (code-char 955)) 'simple-string)
> > >
> > > does return a string.
> >
> > OK but is it correct ?
>
>
> CL-USER> (with-open-file (s "/tmp/usbcl" :external-format :utf-8
:direction :output :if-exists :supersede)
>            (write-line
>             (coerce
>              (loop for i from 1 to (1- (expt 2 16))
>                  collecting (code-char i))
>              'simple-string) s)
>            (values))
>
> in SBCL, and
>
> CL-USER> (with-open-file (s "/tmp/uacl" :external-format :utf-8 :direction
:output :if-exists :supersede)
>            (write-line
>             (coerce
>              (loop for i from 1 to (1- (expt 2 16))
>                  collecting (code-char i))
>              'simple-base-string) s)
>            (values))
>
> in ACL give identical result, if this is what you meant.

I was talking about the pdf file. Does the one made with SBCL show up
correctly in acrobat ?

Marc