set-locale-encodings Function

Summary

Tells the FLI what default conversions to use when passing strings and characters to C.

Package

fli

Signature

set-locale-encodings mb wc => mb

Arguments

Values

Description

The function set-locale-encodings changes the default encodings used by those FLI functions and types which convert strings and characters and accept an :external-format argument.

mb is set as the external format for multi-byte encodings.

If wc is non-nil, then it is set as the external format for wide-character encodings, such as :ef-wc-string.

set-locale calls set-locale-encodings after successfully setting the C locale.

See also

convert-from-foreign-string
convert-to-foreign-string
:ef-mb-string
:ef-wc-string
set-locale
with-foreign-string