| Allegro CL version 6.2 Unrevised from 6.1 | |||||||||
Use of this variable is discouraged. Users should
instead either bind a locale to *locale* or directly specify the desired
external-formats when calling functions that take the :external-format
argument (eg, with-native-string, string-to-octets, octets-to-string, etc.) The
default value of excl:*default-external-format* is
:default. When find-external-format is invoked with
:default,
the returned external-format will be that stored in
*locale*.
This variable supplies the default value for the external-format argument to open, load, and related functions, but see the first paragraph where use of this variable is discouraged.
General information on international character set support in Allegro CL is in iacl.htm.
Copyright (c) 1998-2002, Franz Inc. Oakland, CA., USA. All rights reserved.
Documentation for Allegro CL version 6.2. This page was not revised from the 6.1 page.
Created 2002.2.26.
| Allegro CL version 6.2 Unrevised from 6.1 | |||||||||