Re: strings and characters - Naggum cll archive

Subject: Re: strings and characters
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 2000/03/18
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3162357232406441@naggum.no>

* Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com>
| I'm still not following you.  Are you saying that characters with
| implementation-defined attributes (e.g. bits or fonts) might not satisfy
| (typep c 'character)?

  no.  I'm saying that even as this _is_ the case, the standard does not
  require a string to be able to hold and return such a character intact.

#:Erik