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

[Luís Oliveira]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Steve Haflich <shaflich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Other than external format naming, I can't think of anything that Common
> Lisp needs to standardize.

The main thing that comes to mind is handling of errors.
Implementations differ widely in how they handle encoding and decoding
errors. Some ignore them silently, others signal errors. Some provides
useful restarts, others don't. That was one of the main motivation
behind Babel.

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Luís Oliveira
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