Re: [armedbear-devel] encoding issues with ABCL

On 2/25/13 10:28 PM, Faré wrote:

Dear ABCL developers,

it looks like ABCL is not doing the Right Thing with respect to LOAD's :EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument, instead reading everything with some dubious default from the environment. Can you fix it?

For instance, in Robert Golman's test below, the file is read as MacRoman.

[…] CL:LOAD currently ignores its :EXTERNAL-FORMAT specifier, so I have recorded your problem as issue [#303][]. While not trivial, the necessary changes like a straight-forward propagation of the format specifier to the underlying code in Load.java. [#303]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/ticket/303 -- "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now."