Hi Elliot yes I am familiar with Saint Edi's (always blessed be his parentheses!) CL-UNICODE.
After a few wrong turns it appears that the incantation you need in Lispworks to make it swallow Unicode names is (eval-when (:load-toplevel :compile-toplevel :execute) (cl-unicode:enable-alternative-character-syntax) (setf cl-unicode:*try-lisp-names-p* t) ) You need both, otherwise you get funny errors like #\= is not a character. Unicode names with spaces can be read using an underscore in their place. CL-USER 16 >* #\LATIN_SMALL_LETTER_E_GRAVE* #\è All the best MA Marco On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 6:02 AM Elliott Johnson <elli...@elliottjohnson.net> wrote: > Hi Marco, SMH, and the rest of the list, > > > I assume you are familiar with Edi Weitz's CL-UNICODE: > > "It also provides the ability to replace the standard syntax for > reading Lisp characters with one that is Unicode-aware and is used to > enhance CL-PPCRE with Unicode properties" > > http://edicl.github.io/cl-unicode/#enable-alternative-character-syntax > > > I would hope that it would allow for some level of portable code. > > > Cheers, > > Elliott > > > On 10/13/24 10:48 AM, Marco Antoniotti 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 > Viale Sarca 336 > I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY > > -- Marco Antoniotti, Professor tel. +39 - 02 64 48 79 01 DISCo, University of Milan-Bicocca U14 2043 http://dcb.disco.unimib.it Viale Sarca 336 I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY
