The next release of the sbcl will support the external formats in SB-ALIEN for c-string.
What about implement of it in the cffi? There is any code (for the further development)?
Thanks!
The next release of the sbcl will support the external formats in SB-ALIEN for c-string.
What about implement of it in the cffi? There is any code (for the further development)?
Thanks!
-- WBR, Yaroslav Kavenchuk.
I think there was a branch for encoding work:
http://slacknet.com/~jamesjb/cffi-encoding/
but it has not been worked on for a while.
Ignas
Yaroslav Kavenchuk kavenchuk@jenty.by writes:
The next release of the sbcl will support the external formats in SB-ALIEN for c-string.
What about implement of it in the cffi? There is any code (for the further development)?
I'd love to finish this, but I don't personally have any need for it other than a desire to implement the Right Thing, and not enough time at the moment...
IIRC, the big chunk of work left in that branch (other than forward porting to a recent CFFI) is working out what to do on 8-bit, encoding-unaware Lisp implementations:
Do we want to write portable code to deal with some simple conversions like latin1 to utf8/16 ourselves, or just bomb on any encoding other than 1:1? Or is there an existing conversion library we could use?
If anyone out there looking to contribute wants to work on this, I'd be happy to take another look at where things are with the branch and give a more thorough account of what work is left.
Thanks, James
James Bielman wrote:
I'd love to finish this, but I don't personally have any need for it other than a desire to implement the Right Thing, and not enough time at the moment...
I personally have need for it
IIRC, the big chunk of work left in that branch (other than forward porting to a recent CFFI) is working out what to do on 8-bit, encoding-unaware Lisp implementations:
Do we want to write portable code to deal with some simple conversions like latin1 to utf8/16 ourselves, or just bomb on any encoding other than 1:1? Or is there an existing conversion library we could use?
I need only for support in cffi of the work with encodings in concrete realizations of CL (not portable conversion library - only interface to support in clisp/sbcl/etc.).
Existing library (not CL) - iconv (LGPL). Probably, creation of the cffi-interface to it (for use when support of the necessary coding in the realization of CL is absent) is meaningful.
If anyone out there looking to contribute wants to work on this, I'd be happy to take another look at where things are with the branch and give a more thorough account of what work is left.
I want to work on this (in the measure of the my modest opportunities).
Thansk!
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Ignas Mikalajunas -
James Bielman -
Yaroslav Kavenchuk