Leo Butler <l_butler at users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> That does not work for me with ecl 11.1.1 from the debian testing
> repo. The issue appears to be with this version of ecl, because, if
> the encoding is set on the command line, ecl barfs.
If I remember correctly, ECL in Debian isn't built with Unicode
enabled. On my machine (running Debian unstable)
rupert at skate ~> /usr/bin/ecl
ECL (Embeddable Common-Lisp) 11.1.1
Copyright (C) 1984 Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya
Copyright (C) 1993 Giuseppe Attardi
Copyright (C) 2000 Juan J. Garcia-Ripoll
ECL is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see file 'Copyright' for details.
Type :h for Help.
Top level in: #<process TOP-LEVEL>.
> *features*
(:LINUX :FORMATTER :LONG-LONG :UINT64-T :UINT32-T :UINT16-T
:RELATIVE-PACKAGE-NAMES :LONG-FLOAT :CLOS-STREAMS :CMU-FORMAT :UNIX :ECL-PDE
:DLOPEN :CLOS :THREADS :BOEHM-GC :ANSI-CL :COMMON-LISP :IEEE-FLOATING-POINT
:PREFIXED-API :FFI :I486 :COMMON :ECL)
>
rupert at skate ~> /opt/ecl/bin/ecl
ECL (Embeddable Common-Lisp) 13.4.1 (git:94e04b5484b5f9490703f3b2e43096520265be71)
Copyright (C) 1984 Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya
Copyright (C) 1993 Giuseppe Attardi
Copyright (C) 2000 Juan J. Garcia-Ripoll
ECL is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see file 'Copyright' for details.
Type :h for Help.
Top level in: #<process TOP-LEVEL>.
> *features*
(:LINUX :FORMATTER :ECL-WEAK-HASH :LITTLE-ENDIAN :ECL-READ-WRITE-LOCK
:LONG-LONG :UINT64-T :UINT32-T :UINT16-T :RELATIVE-PACKAGE-NAMES :LONG-FLOAT
:UNICODE :DFFI :CLOS-STREAMS :CMU-FORMAT :UNIX :ECL-PDE :DLOPEN :CLOS :THREADS
:BOEHM-GC :ANSI-CL :COMMON-LISP :IEEE-FLOATING-POINT :PREFIXED-API :FFI
:PENTIUM3 :COMMON :ECL)
>
Rupert
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