The type of strings that can hold any simple character, that is, (vector lw:simple-char length) . This is the string type that is guaranteed to always hold any character used in writing text (program text or natural language), but not necessarily key event descriptors and other such character objects.
In the current HCL implementation, it is equivalent to 8-bit-string ; in DBCS images, it is equivalent to 16-bit-string .