[slime-devel] Re: sbcl regression with slime

[Helmut Eller]

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

> Does that clear things up?  I think there are more problems than just
> this in the communications layer, but maybe this will do until after
> dinner... :-)

Well, I don't understand what the locale has to do with the SLIME
coding system.  Of course, the locale may have some have a multibyte
coding system as default, but for SLIME we can use whatever we like.
I think we should use a unibyte coding system.  Simple, easy to
understand, and efficient.  You will not be able to send your emails
with SLIME, but that's a restriction I can live with :-)

We do already

   (set-buffer-multibyte nil)

in slime-make-net-buffer.  So, character positions it the
*cl-connection* buffer should correspond to byte offsets.

In slime-net-connect we do:

   (set-process-coding-system proc 'no-conversion 'no-conversion)

Maybe we should use 'iso-latin-1-unix for writing.

How does that sound?

Helmut.