Chapter 7. Characters

7.1. Character types
7.2. Character names
7.3. Line Divisions

ECL is fully ANSI Common-Lisp compliant in all aspects of the character data type, with the following peculiarities.

7.1. Character types

If compiled without Unicode support, ECL all characters are implemented using 8-bit codes and the type extended-char is empty. If compiled with Unicode support, characters are implemented using 24 bits and the extended-char type covers characters above code 255.

TypeWith UnicodeWithout Unicode
standard-char#\Newline,32-126#\Newline,32-126
base-char0-2550-255
extended-char-255-16777215