[tbnl-devel] tbnl / sbcl 0.8.21

[Keith Irwin]

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