cl-babel - 20200719.gitf892d05-1 main

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