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> 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! > > > -- > Marco Antoniotti, Professor tel. +39 - 02 64 48 79 01 > DISCo, University of Milan-Bicocca U14 2043 http://dcb.disco.unimib.it > <http://dcb.disco.unimib.it/> > Viale Sarca 336 > I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY
