[Sbcl-devel] RUN-PROGRAM and Unicode arguments

[Maciek P. <ma...@ja...>]

I'm using SBCL 1.0.7 on Linux.  I noticed yesterday that arguments for
SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM are coerced to a SIMPLE-BASE-STRING, which fails if it is
given Unicode arguments.  I'm on UTF-8 locale, I have Unicode file names on
my system, and I'd like to pass them to program, encoded in UTF-8 -- looks
like an entirely valid use case to me.

Is there any chance that SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM will accept arguments' (or
process') coding system, preferably defaulting to one specified by locale, or
at least accept pre-encoded byte arrays as arguments?

Regards,

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