Re: [Sbcl-help] Loading file with special characters

[Christophe R. <cs...@ca...>]

Nikodemus Siivola <nik...@ra...> writes:

> External-format support is sadly underdocumented in the manual for
> now. You need to supply an :EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument to
> LOAD/COMPILE-FILE/OPEN/WITH-OPEN-FILE.

A little bit more detail on the "sadly underdocumented" bit: it isn't
so much that the documentation is incomplete as the implementation
itself; while what we have works for Unixish systems, we don't yet
have the kind of support for MSDOS and (Old)Mac line endings, Win32
byte-order marks, and the like that would let us properly document
things; additionally, the implementation is a little bit "smelly" in
that there are multiple pieces of functionality that have to be
implemented for external formats (FFI translations, string-to-octets,
and stream translations, for example) that are not implemented even
for all currently supported external formats.

Cheers,

Christophe