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Non ’Base-Char” Makes Patch Impossible to Save

Interesting find this evening,

I copied a snip of text to use as documentation in my patch and when trying to save the patch I receive the error message;

An error of type type-error occurred: #\" (of type character) is 
not of type base-char.

I thought, interesting. I went through and started to remove bits of the copied text line by line, saving after each removal to find these two fellows as the culprits

invquote

“ ”

This would be the inverted quotation mark?

Of course, my keyboard would normally just type

" and "

and as such the problem is easily rectified.

Just thought I would share as the only other mention I have seen of a character incompatibility is with non-latin characters.

Yes indeed, this is because utf8 is not supported yet.

Best
K

[quote=“apoorbaugh, post:1, topic:33381, full:true”]

An error of type type-error occurred: #\" (of type character) is 
not of type base-char.

For that particular error try:

(lw::set-default-character-element-type 'character)