On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:09:51 +0100, "Dave Pawson" dave.pawson@gmail.com wrote:
2008/7/24 Edi Weitz edi@agharta.de:
I think you are confused. In Lisp, characters and strings are really characters and strings.
CL-USER 6 > (char-name **) "Latin-Small-Letter-A-With-Diaeresis"
Sorry ** doesn't look like u00e4
Get a good book about Common Lisp and come back once you've understood the basic issues.
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/v__stst_.htm
I don't want to convert, I want to read utf-8 from a file, work in 'characters', build them into strings and write them back to file, in utf-8
Sigh...
seems we have a different definition of 'working'.
Humor me - please give me a short description what I need to change to make UTF-8 "the natural encoding" of CL-PPCRE. I'm really looking forward to that.