Re: [STUMP] That c-encoding problem again

[Rohan Nicholls]

Hi Julian,

Seems I have found a solution, more like stumbled on it.  If you set
the LC_ALL and LANG variables before starting sbcl to "UTF-8", it
handles everything properly.

The only problem with this is that a bunch of other things give
warnings when they start up because they cannot find that locale, but
so far (a few days now) I have seen no ill effects in the running
applications themselves.

So for if anyone else finds themselves suffering from the problem in
the future, give this a shot and it should fix it.  Why sbcl chokes on
something as uncomplicated as en.US.UTF-8 which maps to UTF-8, I do
not know, but I would guess that it is not using the system locale
definitions and might be using its own implementation of unicode,
which only recognises UTF-8 and not variations on the theme.

Hope this helps someone, as it has caused me a lot of grief.

Rohan

2009/1/14 Julian Stecklina <address@hidden>:
> "Rohan Nicholls" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Here is the error I recieved:
>> Error In Command 'exec Eterm': c-string decoding error
>>                                           (:external-format :UTF-8):
>>                                             the octet sequence 2 cannot be
>>                                             decoded.
>>
>> SBCL: SBCL 1.0.23.39 from darcs with clbuild
>> Stumpwm: 0.9.6-git Compiled On Sat Dec 13 16:20:30
>> Linux: Linux minime 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 21:57:00 UTC
>>        2008 i686 GNU/Linux
>> Ubuntu: 8.10 Intrepid with all the latest updates.
>>
>> I keep thinking that there must be something I can set in locales that
>> would solve this problem.  The really annoying thing about this is
>> that it is completely inconsistent.  It will start, and stay until I
>> mess around in an Eterm or rxvt window and then sometimes it goes
>> away, and other times not.  And on my laptop it inevitably comes back
>> periodically.  I have not found any pattern to it starting and
>> stopping.
>
> There has been some discussion about an UTF-8 bug on the sbcl mailing
> list which might be related. Could you try to update your SBCL?
>
> Regards,
> --
> Julian Stecklina
>
> Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to
> program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C,
> so you don't. - Erik Naggum (in comp.lang.lisp)
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