[Ecls-list] Hi Juanjo,Chinese words work in windows console [UTF-8?] now！

[R. Mattes]

On Wed, 30 May 2012 16:20:23 +0200, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote 
> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:36 AM, cm <xiao.ao.jiang.hu.cm at gmail.com> wrote:
I save the file with windows notepad with default code. And load file into ecl
with :windows-cp936, it works fine! 
> but when I save the file with utf-8 format in notepad, and load file with
:utf-8, it report error: 
  
> Problem identified. Notepad inserts a BOM character (0xFEFF) at the
> beginning of the file. This is not standard, but just something that
> Windows uses for UTF-8 and which is discouraged in Unix.

No need to discuss the smartness of Microsoft's editors ...

> I cannot cope with this at the level of encoding, because that would
> break Unix applications and would make ECL work differently on Windows
> and on Unix. Instead I have hacked a simpler solution: BOM is
> interpreted by the Lisp reader as a whitespace.

 ... but this is not a hack - the BOM _is_ zero-width nonbreaking space and hence
should be treated as whitespace.

 Cheers, Ralf Mattes

> I will upload a patch tonight or tomorrow. Thanks for providing me with the
three test cases. They are really useful! 
> 
> Juanjo  
> 
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