I have had a lot of problems with character sets. Unfortunately I don't have a good solution; a lot of times it depended on setting the locale correctly in Debian. I recommend you ask on the SBCL mailing list or on #lisp if you use IRC. It's also possible that the error relates to the foreign function interface, so you may want to ask on the UFFI mailing list as an alternative, or in addition.

Liam

On 3/9/07, Hans Halvorson hhalvors@princeton.edu wrote:

I am trying to use cl-curl with sbcl 1.0 (unicode), and I get a c-string decoding error (please see the backtrace below).

A web search revealed that this problem with sbcl has occurred in some other contexts (e.g. with the stump window manager), but I did not find any explanation of the underlying problem, or any resolution.

Thanks, Hans

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c-string decoding error (:external-format :UTF-8): the octet sequence 1 cannot be decoded. [Condition of type SB-INT:C-STRING-DECODING-ERROR]

Backtrace: 0: (SB-INT:C-STRING-DECODING-ERROR :UTF-8 1) 1: (SB-IMPL::READ-FROM-C-STRING/UTF-8 #.(SB-SYS:INT-SAP #X080ACBB8) CHARACTER) 2: (RETURN-STRING-INT #<SB-ALIEN-INTERNALS:ALIEN-VALUE :SAP #X08082F00 :TYPE (*

                                                          (SB-ALIEN:SIGNED
                                                           8))>)

3: (RETURN-STRING #<SB-ALIEN-INTERNALS:ALIEN-VALUE :SAP #X08082F00 :TYPE (*

                                                          (SB-ALIEN:SIGNED
                                                           8))>)

4: (NIL) 5: (SB-INT:SIMPLE-EVAL-IN-LEXENV (WITH-CONNECTION-RETURNING-STRING (:COOKIES NIL) (SET-OPTION :URL "http://www.foobar.com ") (SET-OPTION :POSTFIELDS "foo-bar") (PERFORM)) #<NULL-LEXENV>)

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