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CLISP Terminal error: Invalid byte sequence

i have a problem while loading my source file inside terminal using clisp. if i execute the following command to load the file: 

(load #p "filename.lisp")

it gives me the following error:

SYSTEM::LINE-COMMENT-READER: Invalid byte sequence #xE0 #xA0 #x20 in
CHARSET:UTF-8 conversion

can someone please tell me what i need to do in order to load the file? thank you.

Solution

  • Your file is encoded with ISO-8859-1:

    $ file filename.lisp 
filename.lisp: ISO-8859 text, with no line terminators

    Based on CLISP's documentation about encodings:

    (load #P"filename.lisp" :external-format 'charset:iso-8859-1)