[Sbcl-devel] unicode (?) pathnames and #'directory

[Cyrus H. <ch...@bo...>]

Perhaps this a known bug/feature, but on Mac OS X, when I try to list =20=

the files in /Library/Fonts with:

(directory (make-pathname :directory '(:absolute "Library" =20
"Fonts") :name :wild :type :wild))

I get the following error:

The value #\=E2 is not of type BASE-CHAR.
    [Condition of type TYPE-ERROR]

Restarts:
   0: [ABORT-REQUEST] Abort handling SLIME request.
   1: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

Backtrace:
   0: (SB-KERNEL:HAIRY-DATA-VECTOR-SET "/Library/Fonts/HTF Gotham=00=00=00=
" =20
25 #\=E2)
   1: (SB-IMPL::CONCAT-TO-SIMPLE* BASE-STRING)
   2: (CONCATENATE BASE-STRING)
   3: (SB-IMPL::%ENUMERATE-FILES "/Library/Fonts/" #P"/Library/Fonts/=20
*.*" T #<CLOSURE (LAMBDA (SB-IMPL::MATCH)) {128E260D}>)
   4: ((LABELS SB-IMPL::DO-DIRECTORY) #P"/Library/Fonts/*.*")
   5: (DIRECTORY #P"/Library/Fonts/*.*")
   6: (SB-INT:EVAL-IN-LEXENV (DIRECTORY (MAKE-PATHNAME :DIRECTORY =20
(QUOTE #) :NAME :WILD :TYPE :WILD)) #<NULL-LEXENV>)
...

Clearly the character in the HTF Gotham font is not a base-char, but =20
we probably want to allow for access to this. I'm not sure what the =20
spec says about unicode pathnames, but given that we support unicode, =20=

we might want to consider supporting it here. I should disclaim that =20
I _think_ this is a Unicode character, but i really don't know much =20
about character, so I could be wrong.

Thanks,

Cyrus