[elephant-devel] Interesting result

[Edi Weitz]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:54:17 -0400, Ian Eslick <eslick at csail.mit.edu> wrote:

> The docs are actually not clear on this and I haven't had time to do
> an experiment, but they seemed to indicate that while wide words are
> supported internally and that external IO could have an external
> format of unicode as well as many others.  There was no indication
> which external format was provided by char-code.  If I recall
> correctly, OpenMCL, SBCL and Allegro all say that they use unicode
> internally.

Here's the experiment:

  CL-USER 1 > (loop for i below char-code-limit
                    for c = (code-char i)
                    always (= (char-code c)
                              (ef:char-external-code c :unicode)))
  T

<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/LWRM/html/lwref-160.htm>