Hi Marco, If the content of a file is written to another file without intermediate steps, it is streamed and consumes constant memory. The implementation for streaming the data was deficient.
The bug has been fixed; a new snapshot is available [1,2]. Grazie e ciao, Christian [1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/2117 [2] https://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 11:40 PM Marco Lettere <m.lett...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Oh yes thanks. Forgot to mention this. Forcing utf8 doesn't help. > > Il ven 27 mag 2022, 19:26 Bridger Dyson-Smith <bdysonsm...@gmail.com> ha > scritto: >> >> Marco - >> I'm sorry but I can only corroborate your findings, and that trying to force >> UTF-8 by adding the encoding parameter to the functions doesn't seem to >> help; e.g. >> >> ) ./bin/basex >> BaseX 9.7.1 [Standalone] >> Try 'help' to get more information. >> > xquery file:current-dir() >> /usr/home/bridger/bin/basex/ >> Query executed in 886.62 ms. >> > xquery file:write-text("a1.txt", "°" || out:nl(), "UTF-8") >> >> Query executed in 4.32 ms. >> > xquery file:read-text("a1.txt") >> ° >> >> Query executed in 1.99 ms. >> > xquery file:write-text("a2.txt", file:read-text("a1.txt", "UTF-8"), >> > "UTF-8") >> >> Query executed in 1.83 ms. >> > xquery file:read-text("a2.txt") >> [file:io-error] Decoding error: xb0 >> > xquery file:read-text("a2.txt", "UTF-8") >> [file:io-error] Decoding error: xb0 >> > xquery file:read-text("a2.txt", "ISO-8859-1") >> ° >> >> Query executed in 2.01 ms. >> >> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 1:00 PM Marco Lettere <m.lett...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> after wrapping our heads around this for hours today, we don't know how >>> to get rid of this inconsistency. Thus I ask for help ... >>> >>> SSCE: >>> >>> BaseX 9.6.4 [Standalone] >>> Try 'help' to get more information. >>> > xquery file:write-text("a1.txt", "°" || out:nl()) (: Same with >>> codepoints-to-string(176) instead of "°" :) >>> >>> Query executed in 183.94 ms. >>> > xquery file:read-text("a1.txt") >>> ° >>> >>> Query executed in 1.49 ms. >>> > xquery file:write-text("a2.txt", file:read-text("a1.txt")) >>> Query executed in 3.4 ms. >>> >>> > xquery file:read-text("a2.txt") >>> [file:io-error] Decoding error: xb0 >>> >>> Testing the files with linux command-line tool "file", this is the output: >>> >>> > file a1.txt >>> a1.txt: Unicode text, UTF-8 text >>> >>> > file a2.txt >>> a2.txt: ISO-8859 text >>> >>> Reading the file after "copying" it seems to change the encoding. How is >>> this supposed to be handled? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Marco. >>>
