Raymond Toy pushed to branch issue-139-set-filename-encoding-to-utf8 at cmucl / cmucl

Commits: 5aa5c037 by Raymond Toy at 2022-12-21T12:58:49-08:00 Add docstring for *filename-encoding*

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- src/code/unix.lisp

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===================================== src/code/unix.lisp ===================================== @@ -25,7 +25,12 @@ ;; it must be set to :iso8859-1 (or left as NIL), making files with ;; non-Latin-1 characters "mojibake", but otherwise they'll be inaccessible. ;; Must be set to NIL initially to enable building Lisp! -(defvar *filename-encoding* nil) +(defvar *filename-encoding* nil + "The encoding to use for converting a namestring to a string that can + be used by the operations system. It must be a valid + external-format name or NIL. NIL means the string is passed as is + to the operating system. The operating system will get the low 8 + bits of each UTF-16 code unit of the string.")

(eval-when (:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel :execute) (defmacro %name->file (string)

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