[hunchentoot-devel] Encoding question

[Edi Weitz]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:20:35 +0200, "Viljo Marrandi" <viltsik at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I tried to switch everything to UTF-8 (which would be preferred
> anyway).  (setq hunchentoot:*hunchentoot-default-external-format*
> :utf-8)

According to the docs the value of this variable should be a flexi
streams external format.  ATM it might work with a keyword like
:UTF-8, but there's no guarantee it will continue to work in the
future.

> Localized dates and text from database now displayed correctly, but
> then I couldn't upload binary files from forms, I guess utf-8 and
> binary don't mix well.

Hmm, I just tried (0.5.1 with LWW 5.0.1) and file uploads work fine
for me even if I set the default external format to UTF-8.

What exactly doesn't work for you?  Which error message do you get?
Can you provide a small, simple example to reproduce the error?  And a
backtrace?  Which Lisp and which OS are you using?  Are you using the
latest releases of Hunchentoot and the other libraries?  Is you
website behind mod_lisp?  (You know, all this stuff that usually
belongs to a bug report...)

Cheers,
Edi.