[Axiom-developer] Re: [fricas-devel] umlaut in Guess - mailing list for algebra

[Waldek Hebisch]

Martin Rubey wrote:
> 
> Sorry Bill for replying late.  At least communication became a lot more
> complicated with these forks.
> 
> > While building FriCAS rev: 46 using GNU CLISP 2.39 on Solaris 10.2 x86 
> >  I received the error message: 
> >  
> >   invalid byte #xC3 in CHARSET:ASCII conversion 
> >  
> > in the file 'GUESS.spad'. Is this a known problem? 
> [...]
> > Any suggestions? Should I just edit the file to remove these 
> >  "non-standard" characters? 
>
> Yes.  Newer versions of Guess should not have any umlauts, but I'm still
> considering to release newer versions GPL only.  (Because of the forks)
> 

I set LC_ALL to ISO-8859-1 -- this normally solves the problem
(however, it seems that some clisp versions ignore this setting).
Personally, I belive that clisp insistence on single file
encoding is really a bug (there should be a way to say within
a program that we want to read a file using 8-bit encoding).



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                              Waldek Hebisch
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