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>
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>
> 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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