[Ecls-list] compile-file :external-format

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Andy Hefner <ahefner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Andy Hefner <ahefner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> While trying to compile my code (which uses the occasional latin-1
>>> character inside strings) using a unicode-enabled ECL, I ran into the
>>> problem that COMPILE-FILE doesn't take an external-argument keyword,
>>> as is required by CL.
>>
>>  Sorry. I mean external-format keyword, of course.
>
> Done. Will be uploaded in a minute.
>
> Juanjo

While you're at it, is there a function to find out whether something
represents a valid external format (find-external-format)? I see there's
EXT:MAKE-ENCODING but I'm not sure how good a fit that is.

Alternatively, is there a way to get a list of all available external
formats.

  -T.