quick survey of swank interfaces in order to see what could be broken out into proper portability libraries or, more optimistically, language extensions.
this is preliminary. i pretty much just went down swank.lisp looking for definterfaces. Some other portability related things are not covered yet.
Babel
- Encode a Lisp string to an octet vector of its UTF-8 encoding
- Decode an octet vector of UTF-8 to a Lisp string