[Ecls-list] Hopefully last fixes

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Matthew Mondor
<mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net>wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:10:42 +0200
> Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > * LOAD admits a new keyword :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
> >
> > * The external format :DEFAULT actually refers to the content of the
> > variable EXT:*DEFAULT-EXTERNAL-FORMAT*, which contains the name of a
> valid
> > format.
> >
> > * :PASS-THROUGH is the default format in most platforms, though this can
> be
> > negotiated.
>
> Is :LATIN-1 the same as :PASS-THROUGH, considering that ECL BASE-CHAR
> allows LATIN-1 characters (any character in from 0 to 255)?
>

De-facto yes, but the same symbol can be used without unicode, and in that
case the character interpretation depends on the C locale (toupper, etc,
etc)

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