Re: [Sbcl-devel] coping with character decoding errors

[Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...>]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...> wrote:

>> You need to provide a handler which provides the decoding to use with
>>  the USE-VALUE restart.

> (handler-bind ((sb-int:stream-decoding-error
>              (lambda (c) (use-value #\? c))))
> (load "/tmp/tmp.lisp"))
>  =>
> debugger invoked on a SB-INT:STREAM-DECODING-ERROR:
>  decoding error on stream
>  #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file /tmp/tmp.lisp" {A621479}> (:EXTERNAL-FORMAT
>  :UTF-8):
>    the octet sequence (237 103 117) cannot be decoded.

My bad: it seems we don't currently supply a USE-VALUE restart for
streams. One way to deal with this right now is to read the data in as
an '(unsigned-byte 8) vector, and use OCTETS-TO-STRING to decode it as
shown earlier.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus