*locale-external-formats* Variable

Summary

Provides a mapping from locale names to encodings.

Package

fli

Initial Value

Not specified.

Description

The variable *locale-external-formats* contains the mapping from locale names to external formats that set-locale uses to set the correct defaults for FLI. The value is an alist with elements of the form:

(locale multi-byte-ef wide-character-ef)

The locale names are given as strings. If the first character of the string is #\*, then that entry matches any locale having the rest of the string as a suffix. If the last character of the string is #\*, then that entry matches any locale having the rest of the string as a prefix. Either external format may be given as nil, in which case the corresponding foreign type cannot be used without specifying an external format.

Notes

*locale-external-formats* is used only on non-Windows platforms. On Windows, the external formats are based on the Windows Code Page.

See also

:ef-mb-string
:ef-wc-string
set-locale