[hunchentoot-devel] [PATCH] invalid byte sequence failure in clisp

[Victor Kryukov]

Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> writes:

> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:20:36 -0600, Victor Kryukov <victor.kryukov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My patch to fix that behaviour is below[5] (it fixes the issue for
>> clisp and hunchentoot still compiles on SBCL) - I basically saved
>> both files in utf-8 and changes Luís' name spelling in
>> port-clisp.lisp - although I'm not sure if "darcs diff -u" will
>> handle all the charcodes intelligently.
>
> Thanks for the patch, but I won't change the file format to UTF-8 as
> it'll make editing the files harder for me and I see no particular
> reason why text files should be assumed to be encoded in UTF-8 by
> default.  (Not to mention that CLISP isn't even fully supported.)

Sure, I'm not telling this is the best solution - it worked for me,
but may not work for everybody.

BTW, why is editing UTF-8 files hard? Emacs is handling that pretty
easily, and I'm sure LispWorks/Allegro IDEs should respect encodings
as well.

> What we can do to fix this is:
>
> 1. Change the name to simply "Luis Oliveira" if that's OK with Luís.
>
> 2. Add an encoding declaration (an Emacs file local variable) for
>    ISO-8859-1 in the first line of the file.  LispWorks, for example,
>    will observe that.  Don't know about CLISP.

It seems that CLISP doesn't support the 2 - otherwise Pascal wouldn't
create his own library, I guess.[1]

Regards,
Victor.

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/815295c8ae5ab187