[mcclim-devel] mcclim and Umlaute?

[Christophe Rhodes]

Friedrich Dominicus <frido at q-software-solutions.de> writes:

> sorry, I have not idea what mcclim does with German Umlauts. 
> I'm using sbcl with :sb-unicode in the *features* list but if there
> e.g a ä or even a § in a text, I will be thrown into the debugger. 

On the assumption that you're using the CLX backend, I think the
relevant piece of code is the default :TRANSLATE function in clx.

> What do I have to do to make Umlauts running with SBCL?

Take a look at translate.lisp in climacs CVS, and see if that can be
adapted to your needs.

(Note: the issue is more complex than this simple "solution" might
imply.  I'm assuming that you don't actually want to think about the
complexity of managing font sets with differing encodings, but please
don't let me stop you.)

Cheers,

Christophe