Re: [Sbcl-help] UTF-8 file loading issue

[Michael W. <esi...@gm...>]

2009/8/20 Carlos Konstanski <cko...@pi...>:
[...]
> --
> debugger invoked on a SB-INT:STREAM-DECODING-ERROR in thread #<THREAD
> "initial thread" RUNNING {A90C6E9}>:
>  decoding error on stream
>  #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file /home/ckonstanski/coreutils.lisp" {B4D3331}>
>  (:EXTERNAL-FORMAT :UTF-8):
>    the octet sequence (179) cannot be decoded.
[...]
> It definitely does not like the iso-8859-1 characters.
[...]
> If I compile the file like this on the x86 machine, it works.  But I
> cannot find how to make ASDF do this:
>
>  (compile-file "coreutils.lisp" :external-format :iso-8859-1)
>
> So is there something that can change in SBCL's config that might
> cause SBCL to dislike iso-8859-1 characters when reading from a file
> stream?  Is there some different behavior depending on architecture?
>
> Can I make ASDF use :external-format :iso-8859-1 when it compiles
> files?  My real file gets loaded by ASDF.
>
> Or if I'm asking all the wrong questions, but someone knows the
> answer anyway, that works too.
[...]

Well, I don't know what questions you should be asking, but iso-8859-1
is a subset of utf-8, so the above doesn't make sense to me.

Sorry I can't be of more help :)

-- 
Michael Wood <esi...@gm...>