Use of this variable is discouraged in Allegro CL 6.0. 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.) In Allegro CL 6.0, 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. The allowable
values are :euc (Unix only), :mb
(i.e. MultiByte format, Windows only), :fat-string and
:process-code, :ascii and
:8-bit 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.
The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.
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Created 2000.10.5.