https://github.com/cl-babel/babel

Babel is a charset encoding/decoding library, not unlike GNU libiconv, written in pure Common Lisp.
https://github.com/cl-babel/babel

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Babel is a charset encoding/decoding library, not unlike GNU libiconv, written in pure Common Lisp.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cl-babel/babel
• Owner: cl-babel
• License: other
• Created: 2011-05-27T00:12:54.000Z (almost 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-09-05T13:38:50.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-12-21T12:51:28.887Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Common Lisp
• Homepage: http://common-lisp.net/project/babel
• Size: 468 KB
• Stars: 102
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 31
• Open Issues: 20
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Copyright: COPYRIGHT

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README

          
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Babel is a charset encoding/decoding library, not unlike GNU libiconv,

but completely written in Common Lisp.

It strives to achieve decent performance.  To that effect, we use

OpenMCL's approach of calculating the destination buffer size in

advance.  Most of the encoding/decoding algorithms have been adapted

from OpenMCL's source.

Another important goal is reusability.  Similarly to SBCL, we define

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.

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...