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).
--
Waldek Hebisch
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