Re: [pro] CDR for UTF* and UNICODE handling in :element-type (Re: write-char vs. 8-bit bytes)

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Steve Haflich shaflich@gmail.com wrote:

Other than external format naming, I can't think of anything that Common Lisp needs to standardize.

The main thing that comes to mind is handling of errors. Implementations differ widely in how they handle encoding and decoding errors. Some ignore them silently, others signal errors. Some provides useful restarts, others don't. That was one of the main motivation behind Babel.