[Gardeners] Lisp and application localization

[Marco Antoniotti]

On Dec 19, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Frank Buss wrote:

> Marco Antoniotti wrote:
>
>> Unicode et similia and XML are orthogonal concerns.   You can have XML
>> (*) manipulation (look around for the CL-XML or CXML libraries on
>> common-lisp.net plus a godzillion other ones I forgot) without Unicode
>> etc.  These libraries are quite portable.
>
> but these libraries have to deal with the XML data then as binary data 
> and
> they have to evaluate the initial 2 bytes at least, because if they 
> think
> it is plain ASCII, an XML file which is valid in utf-16 format becomes
> invalid.

True, but this is not chicken and egg problem.  My argument is that you 
do not require XML manipulation to do Unicode et similia.  Most CL 
implementations are a proof of this.

Cheers


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