Re: editor - not a base char

I don't know if there is a simple fix. I think I handled it by giving  
an error message and suggesting that the selected file encoding had  
to be changed.

Depending on your application, maybe just make UTF-8 or UFT-16 the  
default external format.

John


On Apr 26, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Paul Tarvydas wrote:

> If I copy/paste a lump of text from Microsoft Word into an  
> lispworks (LWW 5.01
> on w2k) editor pane, this appears to work.  If I then try to save  
> the buffer,
> I get an error "#\.  is not of type BASE-CHAR".  (With some  
> debugging, I
> think that the #\. is meant to say #\U+2019).
>
> Obviously Word is using some non-ascii (unicode?) character.  I  
> think that I
> simply want the file to be saved (without conversion?).  Is there a  
> simple
> fix for this?
>
> Although my final app needs to do this with a capi editor pane in a  
> gui, I get
> the same behaviour when I simply paste the Word doc into the lispworks
> editor.



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