Can newLISP handle the special characters of my country and language?
In most parts of the Western world, you will only need to set your locale using the newLISP function set-locale. More than half of the countries in the world use a decimal comma instead of a decimal point. newLISP will correctly read and write decimal commas when switched to the correct locale. Most alphabets in the Western hemisphere fit into 256-place character code tables, and each character needs only one 8-bit byte to be encoded. If the written language of your country requires multibyte characters to encode it, then you need the newLISP version with UTF-8 support enabled. Makefiles for Win32 and Linux are included to compile UTF-8 versions of newLISP. In the UTF-8 version, many character-handling functions are able to handle multibyte characters. See the localization and UTF-8 chapter in the manual for details.
