From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: strings and characters Date: 2000/03/18 Message-ID: <3162357232406441@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 599089407 References: <3162232362158363@naggum.no> <3162302923332864@naggum.no> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 953371147 23439 195.0.192.66 (18 Mar 2000 09:19:07 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Mar 2000 09:19:07 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Barry Margolin | I'm still not following you. Are you saying that characters with | implementation-defined attributes (e.g. bits or fonts) might not satisfy | (typep c 'character)? no. I'm saying that even as this _is_ the case, the standard does not require a string to be able to hold and return such a character intact. #:Erik