Re: Character encodings issue with phrase_from_file

On 19/08/2013, at 6:57 PM, Jan Wielemaker wrote:

> On 08/19/2013 08:32 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>> The problem is that SWI Prolog is by default processing the external
>> file in the expectation that it is coded using UTF-8, and 

> No.

I think you mis-read me.  I meant **IN THIS EXAMPLE**.
"By default" meaning "without the user's active intervention".
If SWI Prolog were not assuming UTF-8, it would have had
nothing to complain about.  The user had not intervened to
request UTF-8.  So, "by default GIVEN THE USER'S SETUP".

The key point remains that the file ISN'T Latin-1 or Unicode
and that according to the on-line documentation, SWI Prolog
DOESN'T support the encoding (probably Windows 1250) that it
*is* in.

I spent some time yesterday poring over the 6.5.1 sources
trying to figure out how to add ENC_CP1250 to SWI Prolog.