On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:09:05 +0900, Jong-won Choi jc@itsec.co.kr wrote:

I may need to write some additional encoding support to Hunchentoot, for my client. For example, euc-jp(LW supports this), Big5(LW does not support this), etc.

Additional encoding support should go into FLEXI-STREAMS, not into Hunchentoot.

http://weitz.de/flexi-streams/

(Cc sent to FLEXI-STREAMS mailing list where we should continue with this discussion.)

As FLEXI-STREAMS doesn't rely on a specific implementation, you can't use LispWorks' built-in EUC-JP support, but you can probably use it as a reference for testing.

Would you tell me any of guidelines, hints, tips, files to read, etc?

You'll have to add your own stream classes and methods for reading and writing a character to that stream. You could probably look at how UTF-8 or UTF-16 are implemented and work from there.

You should also add tests for these new formats and update the documentation accordingly.

I'll submit the final result to you, if it has a quality.

Yes, I'll gladly accept clean patches to add more external formats to FLEXI-STREAMS.

Cheers, Edi.