[flexi-streams-devel] Re: New version 0.5.3

[Edi Weitz]

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:01:39 +0100, Andreas Fuchs <asf at boinkor.net> wrote:

> This didn't exactly work; I get errors stating that the in-memory
> stream isn't a binary stream.

OK.  I only tested on LispWorks.  But as we know now this wasn't what
you wanted anyway... :)

> My current scheme is (horrible and) as follows: I read a line in the
> latin-1 external format, then create a vector from the char-codes,
> and decode that with try-decode-line.
>
> Why latin-1, you ask? Because it has a 1:1 code point mapping to
> bytes, as far as irc is concerned, and I don't have to implement my
> own buffering, which would really suck - IRC operates on lines,
> whereas all binary streams need fixed-width buffers.

Seems reasonable, although not cute... :)