[info-mcl] Text files in MCL 5.2

[Octav Popescu]

MCL 5.2 seems to have a problem with text files. It assumes the input 
file is encoded in MacRoman and converts it to Unicode strings on 
reading, but it doesn't do a reverse conversion on writing. And then it 
just writes the lower bytes of the unicode codes. So for instance if you do:

(with-open-file (in "Home:In.lisp")
    (with-open-file (out "Home:Out.lisp" :direction :output :if-exists 
:supersede)
      (princ (read-line in) out)))

And if you have a line with foreign language characters in "In.lisp", 
you end up with different characters in "Out.lisp". So if you read it 
again, you get a different text than the first time. Does anybody have a 
solution for this problem? I found a workaround by calling 
ccl::convert-string-to-mac-encodings on the string before writing it, 
but I'm hoping for a better integrated solution, which I can save as a 
patch.

Thanks,
Octav