Compiling the latest ERG grammar for ACE: multibyte issues

ACE
#1

I’ve finally got the login infrastructure installed on my MacBook using the docker container approach. Now I’m trying to compile the ERG that is included with

svn checkout http://logon.emmtee.net/trunk logon

for ACE.

My first question is: is this the latest ERG grammar? The readme calls it a “a pre-release snapshot of the forthcoming 1214 version of the ERG”…

To compile a grammar to use with ACE, it appears that I need to use the logon/lingo/erg/ace/config.tdl file as input. But when I do this I get:

user@0eb762d34c69:$ ./ace -G ./test.dat -g ~/Enlistments/logon/lingo/erg/ace/config.tdl 
reading configuration       from `/home/user/Enlistments/logon/lingo/erg/ace/config.tdl'
reading types               from `/home/user/Enlistments/logon/lingo/erg/ace/../mtr.tdl'
multibyte decoding failed: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
on string `config übertag-emission-path'

Any suggestions on getting the latest grammar and compiling it for ACE?

#2

Hi Eric,

1214 is far from the latest ERG. I believe 2018 is, which you can check out from

http://svn.emmtee.net/erg/tags/2018/

Regarding multibyte encoding with ACE, it would be tempting to take a look at environment variables such as LANG, which I would expect to have a value similar to en_US.utf8 …? Encoding issues when compiling released ERG versions using released ACE versions are not expected.