[Ecls-list] Important changes

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis
> <gdr at integrable-solutions.net> wrote:
>>  I have a question:  Does the Unicode support somehow affects
>> the mapping of Lisp types to C types in the FFI?  For example,
>> when passing a :cstring, does one have to specify the format/encoding?
>
> Currently ECL assumes that strings are in the right encoding and
> performs no transformation. :cstring is just a pointer to a list of
> characters, retrieved from a lisp object of type (ARRAY BASE-CHAR (*))
>
> This assumption may be incorrect: the C library may use an encoding
> different from LATIN-1 or ISO-8859-1, which is what ECL imposes for
> strings made of BASE-CHAR (unsigned char in C notation)
>
> What I would like to do in the near future is to evolve from
> string-input/output-streams to something more like
> sequence-input/output-stream. This would inmediately add recoding
> capabilities that could be used for the FFI.
>
> However, what I would like to avoid is that (ARRAY BASE-CHAR (*)) has
> a user defined encoding. That would complicate a lot the conversion
> between these strings of type (ARRAY CHARACTER (*)), making the
> outcome depend on locales, etc, etc.
>
> I do not know whether this answers your question.

Yes, it does -- perfect!  Thanks for the clarification

-- Gaby