[armedbear-devel] encoding issues with ABCL

[Mark Evenson]

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

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