[Ecls-list] Unicode: uncomfortable situation

[Matthew Mondor]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:52:41 -0500
Matthew Mondor <mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net> wrote:

> I guess that another possibility (which could offer a less complex and
> more efficient interface than the SBCL way) would be for ECL to
> automatically and transparently return invalid UTF-8 sequence octets as
> remapped in an unassigned range, and also at UTF-8 output transparently
> output those back characters of that range to the litteral octets,
> while still letting the application potentially deal with that range of
> "characters" as it wants, as long as it's documented...

This example describes better what I was saying above (attached).
-- 
Matt
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