On Wed, 30 May 2012 16:20:23 +0200, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:36 AM, cm <xiao.ao.jiang.hu...@gmail.com> wrote: I save the file with windows notepad with default code. And load file into ecl with :windows-cp936, it works fine! > but when I save the file with utf-8 format in notepad, and load file with :utf-8, it report error: > Problem identified. Notepad inserts a BOM character (0xFEFF) at the > beginning of the file. This is not standard, but just something that > Windows uses for UTF-8 and which is discouraged in Unix.
No need to discuss the smartness of Microsoft's editors ... > I cannot cope with this at the level of encoding, because that would > break Unix applications and would make ECL work differently on Windows > and on Unix. Instead I have hacked a simpler solution: BOM is > interpreted by the Lisp reader as a whitespace. ... but this is not a hack - the BOM _is_ zero-width nonbreaking space and hence should be treated as whitespace. Cheers, Ralf Mattes > I will upload a patch tonight or tomorrow. Thanks for providing me with the three test cases. They are really useful! > > Juanjo > > -- > Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC > c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) > http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
