Documentation of Implementation-Defined Scripts (original) (raw)

ANSI Common Lisp 13 Characters 13.1 Character Concepts

13.1.10 Documentation of Implementation-Defined Scripts

An implementation must document the character scripts it supports. For each character script supported, the documentation must describe at least the following:

• Character labels, glyphs, and descriptions. Character labels must be uniquely named using only Latin capital letters A--Z, hyphen (-), and digits 0--9.
• Reader canonicalization. Any mechanisms by which read treats_different_ characters as equivalent must be documented.
• The impact on char-upcase,char-downcase, and the case-sensitive format directives. In particular, for each character with case, whether it is uppercase or lowercase, and which character is its equivalent in the opposite case.
• The behavior of the case-insensitive functions char-equal, char-not-equal,char-lessp, char-greaterp, char-not-greaterp, and char-not-lessp.
• The behavior of any character predicates; in particular, the effects ofalpha-char-p,lower-case-p,upper-case-p,both-case-p,graphic-char-p, andalphanumericp.
• The interaction with file I/O, in particular, the supported coded character sets (for example, ISO8859/1-1987) and external encoding schemes supported are documented.