[pro] CDR for UTF* and UNICODE handling in :element-type (Re: write-char vs. 8-bit bytes)

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Antoniotti Marco <antoniotti.marco at disco.unimib.it> writes:

> On Apr 11, 2014, at 22:18 , Bob Cassels <bobcassels at netscape.net> wrote:
>
>> Because this is a binary write, not a character write. It has
>> nothing to do with Unicode or anything else. Unless the original
>> problem has to do with writing UCS-2 or UTF-16, but there was
>> nothing in the original question that had anything to do with
>> characters, other than the incorrect use of write-char to write a
>> binary value.
>
> I understand that my original message was not on spot.  In fact I
> changed the subject line in my response… The issue, in any case,
> appears to be the handling of characters nevertheless.  Maybe Paul can
> clarify what he was really trying to do.
>
> In any case… I am the only  person who thinks that a “sub-standard” on
> these issues may be a Good Thing?

What could be a good thing is a partial standardization of
:external-format.  But I'd say that a standardization of the semantics
of pathnames (including logical pathnames) on posix system would be more
urgent.


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