On 4/18/12 7:24 AM, Douglas Crosher wrote:
> 
>   * UTF-8 detection removed to save on the line count.  Still detects a UTF-8 
> BOM, and reads a UTF-8 encoding file option.  Adding a
> UTF-8 encoding file option will help other tools too anyway.

Does anyone use a BOM with utf8?  It's not required, doesn't do anything
except consume 2 octets, but it's not disallowed either.

> 
>   * Removed the lengthy external-format translation table to save on the line 
> count.  It should be easy for CL implementations to
> include more aliases so move the burden of maintaining the aliases to the CL 
> implementation.  CLISP and the Scieneer CL already
> support an extensive range of codes and aliases, and an update set of aliases 
> has been sent for CMUCL.

The updated set of aliases for CMUCL will be in the next snapshot.  Thanks!

> 
>   * Added a large set of test files that exercise the reading of the encoding 
> file option and try to include enough characters from
> each character set to check that the encoding option has been successful 
> mapped to an appropriate external-format.  This includes
> all the encoding in linux 'iconv -l' that include support for the characters 
> needed by CL, but excludes the EBCDIC codes.  All 629
> tests pass on the Scieneer CL, 628 on CLISP, and a much smaller but useful 
> sent on CCL, CMUCL, ECL, and SBCL due to their limited
> aliases and limited encoding support.   See: 
> http://www.scieneer.com/files/coding-tests.tar.bz2

Is there any "mandatory" set of encodings that asdf wants?  Presumably
that means at least iso8859-1 and utf8.  Anything else is a bonus?

Ray


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