with character encodings, these are typically
not terribly flexible or uniform.</p>

<p>The <a href="https://common-lisp.net/project/babel/" >Babel</a> library solves a similar problem while
understanding more encodings. Trivial UTF-8 was written before Babel
existed, but for new projects you might be better off going with
Babel. The one plus that Trivial UTF-8 has is that it doesn't depend
on any other libraries.</p>

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