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0:41:20 edgar-rft ** NICK Emacs-Lisp

0:42:23 Emacs-Lisp ** NICK edgar-rft

3:01:09 beach Good morning everyone!

3:02:29 hayley Good morning beach!

7:27:52 ln43 Hi all, i'm new to SICL and i'm trying to install it on Windows using Portacle

7:29:06 ln43 everything ok, but during the boostrapping, using (defparameter *b* (boot)), i get: Loading file #P"e:/Users/xyz/portacle/all/quicklisp/local-projects/Acclimation/language-japanese.lisp" into E5

7:30:03 hayley What happens when that file is loaded?

7:31:27 ln43 i get this error in sldb: :CP1252 stream decoding error on

7:31:27 ln43 #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file e:\\Users\\xyz\\portacle\\all\\quicklisp\\local-projects\\Acclimation\\language-japanese.lisp" {100B347833}>:

7:31:28 ln43 the octet sequence #(129) cannot be decoded

7:32:30 hayley I'd expect the file to be encoded using UTF-8. Let's see how you change the default encoding in SBCL...

7:32:33 moon-child you probably need to tell your implementation to use utf-8

7:32:37 beach ln43: That typically means that you are using an external encoding other than UTF-8

7:32:56 hayley Try (setf sb-ext:*default-external-format* :utf-8) and then boot again.

7:33:06 ln43 ok... i will try right now

7:33:58 moon-child (and put that in your sbclrc if it does work)

7:37:46 ln43 now i' looking the sbcl docs about setting the default external format (8.1 The Default External Format) but if i try to set that global variable i get: Symbol "*DEFAULT-EXTERNAL-FORMAT*" not found in the SB-EXT package.

7:47:08 beach That's strange.

7:48:04 beach What version of SBCL do you have?

7:48:07 ln43 yes i don't have that symbol defined by the sb-ext packege

7:48:14 ln43 package

7:48:40 beach In 2.1.3, the symbol certainly exists.

7:48:52 ln43 ah ok, i'm using a previous version

7:51:20 ln43 2.0.0

7:51:42 mfiano That...is pretty ancient in software terms.

7:52:03 ln43 yes but is that one provided with Portacle

7:52:35 mfiano Then don't read the latest manual :)

7:53:20 ln43 yes but where are the previous version of the manual?

7:53:26 ln43 how to access them?

7:54:08 ln43 and then the version is that one simply because there is a lack of support for windows

7:54:22 ln43 maybe developer are using something different... i suppose

7:56:06 mfiano Download the source. Compiling the tex sources as outlined in INSTALL

7:57:01 ln43 ok but there should be a solution without a full reinstallation

7:57:06 ln43 should exist

7:57:25 mfiano You don't need to install anything

7:57:51 mfiano This is how you build the HTML, PDF, and info artifacts

7:58:09 mfiano Also seems like questions for #sbcl

7:59:12 ln43 it's like for problems that without a known solution is difficult to figure out what to do

7:59:21 ln43 anyway yes...

8:13:17 ln43 ok so maybe i should modify something inside Portacle to use something like (setq slime-lisp-implementations (sbcl ("/opt/sbcl/bin/sbcl") :coding-system utf-8-unix))

8:13:25 ln43 maybe that should work

8:13:27 ln43 hopefully

8:34:09 jdz ln43: I think that will only change the encoding used by Emacs to communicate with the SBCL process, not the encoding SBCL will use when reading files.

8:36:24 ln43 ah, ok

8:36:27 ln43 thank you

8:37:37 beach What if you do (apropos "default-external-format")?

8:37:54 beach Do you get any relevant information?

8:41:54 ln43 right, yes: SB-IMPL::*DEFAULT-EXTERNAL-FORMAT* (bound)

8:42:12 ln43 it's not exported but it's defined inside sb-impl

8:43:51 beach What is it bound to? You might want to try to set it.

8:44:19 ln43 to :CP1252 as shown by that error message

8:44:40 ln43 yes, i saw it whithin the list of all the possible formats

8:44:43 beach Try setting it to :utf-8

8:44:48 ln43 ok...

8:46:43 ln43 i suppose now it should be work

8:46:46 ln43 thank you

8:47:46 beach Sure. But I don't know whether it will work.

8:49:01 ln43 no because ctype was not found

8:49:26 ln43 initially i was installing only the dependencies listed here https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL

8:49:45 ln43 but there are at least four more required and not reported there

8:49:56 beach I am not surprised.

8:55:39 ln43 beach do you know if ctype works on windows and if yes where it's defined ?

8:56:11 beach It should be entirely portable. Let me find it for you...

8:56:11 hayley ctype is in the README list, no?

8:56:37 beach https://github.com/s-expressionists/ctype/

8:56:49 beach ln43: There is not much anyone can do with SICL at the moment, so it doesn't seem important to keep the information accurate.

8:56:52 ln43 ops, right

8:56:59 ln43 sorry

8:59:15 ln43 ah ok, it was missing here: https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL/blob/master/get-dependencies.sh

9:00:11 beach Can you send a pull request?

9:03:06 ln43 i don't use github...

9:09:11 ln43 so maybe even closer-mop is required to have direcct-slot-definition

9:09:18 ln43 .. direct

9:14:55 beach Yes, closer-mop is required.

9:15:44 ln43 ok but it was already installed in my case...

9:16:24 ln43 using quicklisp