Re: wide character support

i could understand that that might have made sense for the original target
domain, but is it that hard to have alternative builds which use 16 bit
characters. i'm not even arguing for an imlementation which handles two
classes of string. given, for example, that your base os calls are now in
terms of utf-16 encoded strings, what is the argument for 8-bit lisp strings?

Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
> 
> I believe that support for more than 8-bit wide characters was
> something that was dropped from MCL when it became OpenMCL. Full
> UNICODE characters and string, implemented so that it doesn't cost to
> much on simple ASCII strings would be fantastic, ..
> 
> On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 09:59 AM, james anderson wrote:
> 
> > is there something which can be done to enable (or introduce) wide
> > character (unsigned-byte 16) strings?
> >
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