On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Raymond Toy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The next release of the SCL integrates comprehensive support for > >> reading a text file character encoding from an Emacs style coding > >> attribute. The support was contributed to public domain CMUCL if > >> you wish to examine it. This allows 'load and 'compiler, and the > >> debugger, and many editors, to also use the correct encoding. > >> The new external-format has been named :file-attribute. It has > >> not been decided if this will be the :default, but a separate default > >> will be provided for lisp source files. I am open to working with > >> other vendors on standardising the support, but there has been > >> little interest. > >> > Far> I believe I saw an earlier version of it. Is it in the current > version > Far> of CMUCL from CVS? > > No. The code was checked into git, but backed before the release and > hasn't been re-enabled. While it's pretty cool, we wonder if it would > not be better handled as an external library. > Well, asdf-encodings does kind of the same thing in a semi-portable way, initially based on some of the same code. I'm sure its API could be improved.
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