[slime-devel] Re: sbcl regression with slime

[Helmut Eller]

Christophe Rhodes <csr21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

> How odd.
>
> To me, it seems that this bug has always been there, and I have no
> idea why we've only just started noticing it.  (Clearly I don't do
> enough real work in slime).  The problem arises in UTF-8 locales only,
> with slime's emacs end treating the first three bytes or so of a
> connection as text (rather than binary).
>
> The attached patch fixes the problem at a certain cost in dynamic
> range of communications.  Please advise if this is the desired
> solution, or if I/we need to do some more work.

Why do you need utf-8?  Can't you use a unibyte coding system like
iso-latin-1?  I'd rather keep the complexity of multiple coding
systems away from SLIME.

Helmut.