Ok, the short answer on this one is: "I am working on it folks".

I know this sounds a bit cliché but it is essentially true.

The longer answer is that I really want to finish plugging the holes in the
Unicode support of MKCL, holes that you yourself, Kaïraba, have pointed to
me a few months ago (I know "months ago". Yes the holes were that big!
I basically had to rework the entire OS interface layer both for Linux and Windows.)
This is motivated by the fact that real, standard, complete Unicode support seems to be
pretty much expected by a large portion of the libraries available through Quicklisp.
At least that is the impression I got from things I read in the ECL mailing lists...

The more or less good news here is that I am almost done with this Unicode business,
at least I hope I am. (I think there is about 2 more weeks to go on this.)
Right next after that I will do the Quicklisp "port".

And then these two things (1- complete Unicode support, 2 - Quicklisp for MKCL)
will be the main features of the MKCL 1.1 version I will announce.

So, what do you say of that?

Cheers,

Jean-Claude