Re: [Sbcl-help] unreadable characters in filenames

[Tamas K P. <tk...@gm...>]

Hi Don,

On Sat 17 Mar 2012 03:52:49 PM CET, Don Geddis wrote:

 > Sounds like a LOCALE issue.  SBCL -- and probably your (unix/linux?) 
 > filesystem -- seem to be using UTF-8, but the original filenames were
 > probably written with a different encoding.

Yes, I am using linux, and that's probably what happened.

 > In Lisp, you might have some luck with reading and writing as binary
 > streams, instead of as characters.  In linux, take a look at "iconv",
 > which may be able to help you.

Your suggestion helped me solve the issue: I used qmv (from renameutils)
to generate a list of filenames, which I read as a binary file in an
SBCL script that did the conversion.  Thanks!

Just curious: is it possible to read the path as some kind of binary
stream directly in SBCL?

Best,

Tamas