Re: [clisp-list] special characters in comments

[Adam W. <li...@co...>]

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 17:09, Matt Kaufmann wrote:
> Thank you for the quick reply.  So, I've added the following to the ACL2
> sources (the check for unicode is necessary because charset:utf-8 was
> introduced after CLISP 2.27):
> 
>   #+(and clisp unicode) (setq custom:*default-file-encoding* charset:utf-8)
> 
> This eliminated problems with two of the characters (#xAB and #xB7), but some
> characters used in comments still cause errors:
> 
> *** - invalid byte sequence #xED #x74 #x75 in CHARSET:UTF-8 conversion
> *** - invalid byte sequence #xF1 #x61 #x74 #x69 in CHARSET:UTF-8 conversion
> *** - invalid byte sequence #xF3 #x20 #x61 #x2F in CHARSET:UTF-8 conversion

If you use a faithfully reproducing character set it will be impossible
to use invalid characters in comments. I suggest you try iso-8859-1
decoding instead of utf-8.

You can read about faithful output here:
http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/io.html

Longer term you may wish to convert the code to utf-8 encoding so you
can use that instead of an 8-bit character set.

Regards,
Adam