></span></span></p>

<h2><a href="#x-28TRIVIAL-UTF-8-3A-40TRIVIAL-UTF-8-INTRODUCTION-20MGL-PAX-3ASECTION-29">2 Introduction</a></h2>

<p>Trivial UTF-8 is a small library for doing UTF-8-based in- and
output on a Lisp implementation that already supports Unicode -
meaning <code>CHAR-CODE</code> and <code>CODE-CHAR</code> deal with Unicode character codes.</p>

<p>The rationale for the existence of this library is that while
Unicode-enabled implementations usually do provide some kind of
interface to dealing 