Folks--
I believe Edi forwarded a message I'd written about some sort of
byte-related encoding problems (or decoding) with regard to SBCL. The
problem occurs when I want to serve up an image file as part of, say,
a background for a web site.
Does anyone want to focus my attention on any particular files, or
areas to envistigate, or should I just leave well enough alone because
you all are about ready to update the code?
Edi's comment:
> One solution might be to check if SBCL has some kind of default
> external format which can be used to overwrite the UTF-8 format. I
> don't use SBCL myself but I seem to remember that this might depend on
> the value of some environment variable when the image is started.
> Maybe someone else here knows the details.
> Another option would be to treat SBCL like LW and AllegroCL in case it
> also has bivalent streams.
Since I'm not a developer of TBNL nor do I intend to be, I'm not sure
what the above means. Is the problem that TBNL is trying to read a
binary file into, uh, characters, or something?
Anyway, I'll see if I can't come up with a hack and then drop it here
in case it'll help an expert get a real fix in quicker.
Thanks,
Keith