[tbnl-devel] UTF-8 problems -- patch

[Edi Weitz]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:03:56 +0400, Ivan Shvedunov <ivan4th at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I hope that (coerce bytes '(vector (unsigned-byte 8))) in
> bytes-to-string doesn't add much overhead when bytes are already
> '(vector (unsigned-byte 8)),

Me too... :)

> but it allows one to pass just a vector of numbers there without
> making Lisp complain about it.

OK.

>> I'd prefer if they were called "bytes" and not "octets" because a
>> byte doesn't necessarily have 8 bits.
>
> ? They _are_ called "bytes"...

I meant: I'd prefer if they were called "octets" and not "bytes,"
sorry.

  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte>

> I'll try to build a more elaborate patch, but probably this will
> happen no earlier than next week.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Edi.