Source: cl-babel Section: lisp Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Common Lisp Team Uploaders: Peter Van Eynde , Sébastien Villemot Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), debhelper (>= 12.8~) Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Homepage: https://common-lisp.net/project/babel/ Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/common-lisp-team/cl-babel.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/common-lisp-team/cl-babel Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: cl-babel Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${misc:Depends}, cl-trivial-features, cl-alexandria, cl-trivial-gray-streams Description: charset encoding/decoding library for Common Lisp 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, it uses 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, it defines 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...