Re: Using Japanese and English strings, encodings

Thanks, Pascal (cool name, by the way!). You're right about me trying
to impose a usage pattern that won't work with run-time selection of
language (which sometimes I just didn't care about). Really, I would
like to get better at playing along _with_ the lispy way of doing
things rather than attempt to reinvent the wheel...but for now I'm
still learning what the lispy way of doing things, and trying to figure
out in which directions lisp code distorts the most conveniently. It's
going to be a lot of trial and error, I think.

Coincidentally, if your CV is correct our birthdates are the same day
(March 15?), although I'm a fair bit younger. You got your Bacc. degree
the same year I was born...

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