A character type. This can take any of the values
base-char
;
lw:simple-char
and
character
Sets the value of
lw:*default-character-element-type*
, ensuring that the system's internal state is also updated accordingly.
If you are running an existing 8-bit application you will only need to have this in your site or user configuration file:
(lw:set-default-character-element-type 'base-char)
It would be a mistake to call this in a loadable package.
Hence we consider
lw:*default-character-element-type*
a parameter.