24 Jul
2008
24 Jul
'08
9:41 p.m.
"Dave Pawson" dave.pawson@gmail.com writes:
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
This just works. You probably need to use external-format with OPEN (or more likely WITH-OPEN-FILE) to indicate the encoding you are using. This will read one line of file in LispWorks:
(with-open-file (in file-name :external-format :utf-8 :element-type 'character) (read-line in))
seems we have a different definition of 'working'.
Please explain what doesn't work. Maybe a code sample would help.
Cheers, Chris Dean