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Babel is a charset encoding/decoding library, not unlike GNU libiconv, but |
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completely written in Common Lisp. |
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It strives to achieve decent performance. To that effect, we use OpenMCL's |
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approach of calculating the destination buffer size in advance. Most of the |
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encoding/decoding algorithms have been adapted from OpenMCL's source. |
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Another important goal is reusability. Similarly to SBCL, we define an |
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interface wherein the algorithms can be reused between a variety of data |
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types so long we're dealing with conversions between octets and unicode |
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code points. |
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Babel comes with converters between strings and (unsigned-byte 8) vectors |
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but can be easily extended to deal with, e.g., strings and foreign memory, |
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vectors and Closure's runes, etc... |
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