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

>
> If you want to convert between octets and characters (that's where
> encodings like UTF-8 make sense), most CL implementations have
> facilities for this out of the box.  For portable solutions see for
> example here:
>
>  http://weitz.de/flexi-streams/
>  http://common-lisp.net/project/babel/

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

>> Any reason lisp should not enjoy that level of internationalisation?
>
> It does already.

seems we have a different definition of 'working'.

regards



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