* Luís Oliveira [2010-05-31 20:57+0200] writes: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Helmut Eller <hel...@common-lisp.net> wrote: >> Is this assertion >> >> (assert >> (equal >> (cffi:with-foreign-string (data "foobar" :encoding :utf-16) >> (cffi:foreign-string-to-lisp data :count 6 :encoding :utf-16)) >> "foobar")) >> >> expected to fail? > > FOREIGN-STRING-ALLOC currently doesn't insert BOM markers and the > :UTF-16 encoder uses native endianness. The :UTF-16 decoder defaults > to big endian when a BOM marker is not present, as recommended by the > Unicode specification. That's why the assertion fails. > > One solution is to use :UTF-16BE or :UTF-16LE explicitly, which > unfortunately aren't implemented in Babel yet.
Thanks. I will write my on decoder then. Helmut _______________________________________________ cffi-devel mailing list cffi-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cffi-devel
