[Openmcl-devel] problem loading builder-utilities from ccl-ide-init

[Gail Zacharias]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Gary Byers <gb at clozure.com> wrote:

> Part of the problem is that the file violates the well-known rule
> which states "all files are encoded in utf-8 and if they aren't that's
> not my problem".  It seems that the string which is the value of
> $default-info-plist-getInfo-**string is supposed to contain a copyright
> sign (#\u00a9) followed by a space.  The file was apparently actually
> encoded in iso-8859-1 (or some similar 8-bit encoding), so that
> sequence of characters (#\copyright_sign #\space) is encoded as the
> octets #xa9 #x20.  The trunk currently sets
> *DEFAULT-FILE-CHARACTER-**ENCODING* to :UTF-8 (following the rule
> above), and the octet sequence #xa9 #x20 isn't valid utf-8.  The trunk
> signals a condition (supposed to be of type DECODING-PROBLEM but
> apparently isn't at least sometimes) in this case and generates a
> #\replacement_character; the idea behind signaling a condition rather
> than treating this case as an error is that policy decisions like that
> are best made by higher-level code (higher level than the guts of
> READ-CHAR.)
>
> Something in the bridge or in the event loop (my being more precise
> about that depends on sufficient caffeination, which may take a while)
> effectively handles that condition, and the effect of that is to throw
> out of the LOAD (closing the file) and (I think ...) resuming the
> event loop.
>

Possibly related to http://trac.clozure.com/ccl/ticket/682



>
> There are several bugs here.  One workaround that'll work for a while is
> to do:
>
> (let* ((ccl:*default-file-character-**encoding* :iso-8859-1))
>   (require "BUILDER-UTILITIES"))
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Paul Krueger wrote:
>
>  Using 1.9-dev-r15527M-trunk  (DarwinX8664) I am having trouble loading a
>> ccl-ide-init file that loads just fine when I do it from the listener after
>> the IDE comes up. I traced that problem to a require of builder-utilities
>> (i.e. ccl/cocoa-ide/builder-**utilities) that I was doing and
>> specifically within that file to the following line:
>>
>> (defparameter $default-info-plist-getInfo-**string "\"1.0 Copyright ???
>> 2008\"")
>>
>> Everything up to $cfbundle-getinfo-string-key (which is defined on the
>> previous line) gets defined and nothing after that is.
>>
>> I created a simple test version of the ccl-ide-init file by just doing a
>> copy/paste of the failing line:
>>
>> (format t "beginning ccl-ide-init~%")
>> (defparameter $default-info-plist-getInfo-**string "\"1.0 Copyright ???
>> 2008\"")
>>
>> (format t "ending ccl-ide-init~%")
>>
>> and it loaded just fine with both format statements executed. Then I
>> created a ccl-ide-init file with the following lines:
>>
>> (format t "beginning ccl-ide-init~%")
>> (require :builder-utilities)
>> (format t "ending ccl-ide-init~%")
>>
>> which once again quietly failed to load the builder-utilities file
>> (failing at the same place) and the second format statement was not
>> executed.
>> Any ideas what's going on?
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