[info-mcl] (char-code ) inconsistencies

[peter]

At 10:34 AM -0700 10/3/22, Terje Norderhaug wrote:
>On Mar 22, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Raymond Lee wrote:
>>
>>   The (char-code ) function's behavior has 
>>changed from MCL 5.x to RMCL 5.2.1 and now
>>appears quite inconsistent for ASCII 
>>characters > 127.  For example, in most fonts 
>>ASCII
>>character #  179 is mapped to the "greater than 
>>or equal to" character.  But now in RMCL
>>
>>  (char-code (character "„")) --> 8805
>>           whereas
>>  (char-code (character 179)) --> 179
>>
>>   Thus the problem surfaces when you try to 
>>coerce text (say, in an image file) to its ASCII
>>equivalent, but it won't appear if you call 
>>(char-code ) from its inverse, (character ). 
>>Most ASCII
>>characters > 127 exhibit similar problems.  Any 
>>solutions or ideas come to mind?
>
>This is due that MCL 5.2 was upgraded to use 
>Unicode, for which 8805 (2265 hex) is the 
>"greater than or equal to" character.

Presumably hence char-code's fine, we're just 
inputting unicode now where we were using roman.

Isn't the lisp function >= rather than „.