Re: [cffi-devel] a thought on string encodings

James Bielman wrote:

Now that this is working, I will start pulling the implementation-specific code into an encoding-aware %FOREIGN-STRING-TO-LISP function in CFFI-SYS.

How are you going to represent the encodings? - use the implementation's objects? - introduce your own names? - restrict yourself to known encodings, e.g. UTF-8 (users on MS-Windows would appreciate UTF-16)?

#+clisp (defcfun "strlen" :unsigned-int (s :pointer))

Hmm, I lost track of whether that works on MS-Windows in a MS-VC build (as opposed to mingw/cygwin/unix-like).

Yeah, I should really add this string stuff to clisp instead.

Regards, Jorg Hohle.