Hi Chris, I don't see which of the characters in the file name would not have an encoding in Latin1. Is this really the file name you used? The problem is, though, that UFFI doesn't allow you to specify an encoding when converting Lisp strings to C strings. This could certainly be done in the LispWorks FLI directly and probably (I haven't looked) in CFFI as well. A real solution would be to re-architect CL-GD to use an alternative to UFFI, but I don't have the time to do it and I haven't used CL-GD for years anyway. Cheers, Edi. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Chris Perkins <cperkins@medialab.com> wrote:

Hello,

If I have a pathnamewith extended characters in its namestring (like curly quotes, etc), how do I get that image to load with CL-GD?

Maybe I have to go diving into UFFI or the sources for GD itself, but I thought I'd ask here first, since it seems like this has probably come up already.

Thanks for any assistance,

Chris

Example:  f => #P"/Users/cperkins/Pictures/image file names testing/Earth “fatter” copy.gif"

(cl-gd:create-image-from-file f)

Error: External format (:LATIN-1 :EOL-STYLE :LF) got error writing #<Pointer to type (:UNSIGNED :CHAR) = #x0102B008> at position 55: No encoding exists for character “.  1 (abort) Return to level 0.  2 Return to top loop level 0.

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