It does work in ECL, too. Does not in ABCL.

Don’t have other impls handy at the moment to check.

> On 13 Oct 2024, at 22:48, Marco Antoniotti <marco.antonio...@unimib.it> wrote:
> 
> Yep.  "It works in SBCL".  I think I wrote a rant about it on my blog some 
> time ago.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> MA
> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 10:39 PM Antoni Grzymała <ant...@grzymala.info 
> <mailto:ant...@grzymala.info>> wrote:
>> I always thought these names were standardised within the Unicode standard, 
>> for example:
>> 
>> "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH OGONEK” for Ų
>> 
>> The rest being a matter of porting these names to symbols, but it’s just 
>> replacing spaces with underscores in a CL character literal:
>> 
>> #\LATIN_CAPITAL_LETTER_U_WITH_OGONEK
>> 
>> [a]
>> 
>> PS. both characters work in sbcl, but neither in LispWorks, which I might be 
>> running a limited version in my OpusModus environment, though 
>> 
>>> On 13 Oct 2024, at 19:48, Marco Antoniotti <marco.antonio...@unimib.it 
>>> <mailto:marco.antonio...@unimib.it>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello parenthetical crowd
>>> 
>>> Is there a consensus about how to "name" Unicode characters, or every 
>>> implementation does whatever it likes (thus breaking otherwise perfectly 
>>> portable code)?
>>> 
>>> Cf., #\INFINITY
>>> 
>>> All the best
>>> 
>>> MA
>>> 
>>> PS Do not even think to use the "hey, it is an implementation-dependent 
>>> thing" argument!
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
> 
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