Source: cl-trivial-utf-8 Section: lisp Priority: optional Maintainer: Dimitri Fontaine Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7) Build-Depends-Indep: dh-lisp Standards-Version: 3.9.5 Homepage: http://common-lisp.net/project/trivial-utf-8/ Package: cl-trivial-utf-8 Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} Description: small Common Lisp library for doing UTF-8-based in- and output Trivial UTF-8 is a small library for doing UTF-8-based in- and output on a Lisp implementation that already supports Unicode -- meaning char-code and code-char deal with Unicode character codes. . The rationale for the existence of this library is that while Unicode-enabled implementations usually do provide some kind of interface to dealing with character encodings, these are typically not terribly flexible or uniform. . The Babel library solves a similar problem while understanding more encodings. Trivial UTF-8 was written before Babel existed, but for new projects you might be better off going with Babel. The one plus that Trivial UTF-8 has is that it doesn't depend on any other libraries.