On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Robert Dodier <robert.dod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > >> > On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 at 10:45PM -0800, Alex Lara wrote: > >> >> *** - invalid byte #xC3 in CHARSET:ASCII conversion > > Try this: change the environment variable LC_CTYPE > e.g. LC_CTYPE=ES_es or LC_CTYPE=ES_es.UTF-8 or something > like that. Or maybe somehow indicated ISO 8859-1 or Latin-1 or > something. Then Clisp might know how to decode the offending bytes. > > Another tactic: put the following in your $HOME/.clisprc file. > > (format t "HELLO FROM CLISPRC~%") > (ignore-errors > (progn (setf custom:*default-file-encoding* > (ext:make-encoding :input-error-action #\?)) > (setf custom:*terminal-encoding* > custom:*default-file-encoding*))) > > That replaces undecodable bytes by '?' characters. > (The "hello" message is just to verify the code is loaded ....) > >> That's a good guess. There is a known major bug in Maxima + clisp where >> it totally fails to work if there are certain non-ascii characters in the >> filenames in the current directory or PATH. I can't wait until clisp isn't >> in Sage. > > The bad news is that it's not exactly a Clisp idiosyncrasy. > Clisp is trying to "do the right thing" when faced with undecodable > bytes. > Unfortunately the Common Lisp spec, while it recognizes the > existence of character encoding issues, doesn't specify what to do > when a byte can't be decoded to a character. Other Lisp > implementations > probably have their own ways to handle it. > > FWIW > > Robert Dodier
Many thanks for the workarounds above! We may be able to at least automate them for Sage, which would be a step forward. That said -- I'm really looking forward to Sage switching to Maxima + ECL. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
