more about build-index+cl-ppcre branch & encodings
Subject: more about build-index+cl-ppcre branch & encodings
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 20:20:29 -0700
On 3/2/11, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/2/11 5:59 PM, Douglas Crosher wrote:
>>
>> Using a byte offset to position in a character file, exploiting broken
>> implementations of 'file-offset, does not seem a good approach. At
>> any time the broken implementations could correct 'file-offset and
>> Maxima would then look up the wrong location.
>>
>> The SCL, and it would also seem CMUCL, do correctly position in a
>> character file so currently return text from the wrong location.
> Are you using the 8-bit version of cmucl or the unicode version? The
> unicode version fails your test, which is what I was expecting. (Took
> me a while to test this because I didn't build the es.utf8 files, and
> then there were a couple of bugs in the build system itself that I had
> to fix.)
How can one tell the character version?
I don't see anything about it in *FEATURES*.
best
Robert Dodier