«Today I discovered the #MITScheme tries to read #Emacs -style file header comments (for example ;; -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- ) and this can cause the reader to crash for some reason. I am not sure if it is a bug or a feature, but ...»
If this is really about file content being invalid for an encoding, there is an unpleasant devil in the details about this case and that includes the bug-or-feature verdict.
Part of the problem, of course, is deciding whether the determination of the encoding is in error or the file content is bad.
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Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов
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2026-09-07 15:17:24 UTC
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