Variable

Summary

A list of the names of the defined external formats.

Package

lispworks

Initial value

Microsoft Windows platforms:

(WIN32:CODE-PAGE FLI::LATIN-1-WCHAR FLI:ASCII-WCHAR :MACOS-ROMAN :UTF-8 :GBK :WINDOWS-CP936 EXTERNAL-FORMAT:DOUBLE-BYTE-TABLE-LOOKUP :JIS :EUC-JP :SJIS :LATIN-1-TERMINAL :UNICODE :LATIN-1-SAFE :LATIN-1-CHECKED :EUC :SHIFT-JIS :NIHONGO-MS :NIHONGO-EUC :NIHONGO-JIS CHARACTER EXTERNAL-FORMAT::BYTE-SWAPPED-SIMPLE-CHARACTER EXTERNAL-FORMAT::RAW-SIMPLE-CHARACTER EXTERNAL-FORMAT::RAW-BASE-CHARACTER :ASCII-TERMINAL :ASCII :LATIN-1)

On all other platforms:

(FLI::LATIN-1-WCHAR FLI:ASCII-WCHAR :MACOS-ROMAN :UTF-8 :GBK :WINDOWS-CP936 EXTERNAL-FORMAT:DOUBLE-BYTE-TABLE-LOOKUP :JIS :EUC-JP :SJIS :LATIN-1-TERMINAL :UNICODE :LATIN-1-SAFE :LATIN-1-CHECKED :EUC :SHIFT-JIS :NIHONGO-MS :NIHONGO-EUC :NIHONGO-JIS EXTERNAL-FORMAT::HOST-PORTABLE EXTERNAL-FORMAT::LATIN-PORTABLE CHARACTER EXTERNAL-FORMAT::BYTE-SWAPPED-SIMPLE-CHARACTER EXTERNAL-FORMAT::RAW-SIMPLE-CHARACTER EXTERNAL-FORMAT::RAW-BASE-CHARACTER :ASCII-TERMINAL :ASCII :LATIN-1)

Description

The variable *external-formats* contains a list of the names of the defined external formats.

The platform-specific external format names are:

code-page

Uses the encoding in the Microsoft Windows code page specified by the :id parameter.

latin-portable

Intended for use when communicating with X servers, for example when passing XLFD names. Uses the X Portable Character Set.

host-portable

A synonym for latin-portable .