3rdparties/software/babel-20200218-git/README.md (865 bytes)
1 [](https://travis-ci.org/cl-babel/babel) 2 3 Babel is a charset encoding/decoding library, not unlike GNU libiconv, 4 but completely written in Common Lisp. 5 6 It strives to achieve decent performance. To that effect, we use 7 OpenMCL's approach of calculating the destination buffer size in 8 advance. Most of the encoding/decoding algorithms have been adapted 9 from OpenMCL's source. 10 11 Another important goal is reusability. Similarly to SBCL, we define 12 an interface wherein the algorithms can be reused between a variety of 13 data types so long we're dealing with conversions between octets and 14 unicode code points. 15 16 Babel comes with converters between strings and (unsigned-byte 8) 17 vectors but can be easily extended to deal with, e.g., strings and 18 foreign memory, vectors and Closure's runes, etc... 19