more about build-index+cl-ppcre branch & encodings



On 3/2/11, Douglas Crosher <dtc-maxima at scieneer.com> wrote:

> Needless to say the use of a character offset for the Maxima info documents
> suits the SCL, but it could also work with byte offsets,
[...]
> just reading a chunk of bytes and converting them to characters.

How can that be implemented? Is there a CL function for it?
I don't think CODE-CHAR is enough, and I don't know anything else to try.

best

Robert Dodier