Re: [Gcl-devel] utf8 and emacs text/string multibyte representation

[Raymond Toy]

>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Toy <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:
    Camm> Greetings!  One other thing -- any opinions on using locales and 
wchar_t
    Camm> for conversions?

    Camm> Is there really any other (than utf-8) external encoding that needs
    Camm> support in a common lisp, practically speaking?

    Raymond> Latin1? But surely this question depends on your native language 
and
    Raymond> the customary encodings used for that language or country.

I checked some random emails and my wife receives email encoded using
ksc-c-5601, euc-kr, and utf-8. It seems to be utf-8 now, but even last
year she received euc-kr encoded mail.

Fortunately, gcl can probably use babel (or icu) to handle all of the
other encodings not handled natively.

--
Ray