[slime-devel] Re: sbcl regression with slime

[Christophe Rhodes]

Helmut Eller <e9626484 at stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> I added support for multibyte coding systems.  The new magic variable
> is slime-net-coding-system.  Currently there are 3 possible values for
> the coding system: iso-8859-1-unix, utf-8-unix, and emacs-mule-unix.
> At startup, Emacs tells the Lisp implementation which coding system to
> use and same encoding is used for the rest of the session.  Not all
> Lisps implementations support all coding systems.  The situations is
> as follows:
>
>   CMUCL, OpenMCL: support only iso-8859-1-unix.
>   SBCL, CLISP: can be used with iso-8859-1-unix or utf-8-unix.
>   Allegro: supports all three.

Thank you.  What Lisp support do you need to support other external
formats?  A lisp-side understanding of the emacs multibyte system?

If so, where is emacs-mule-unix documented?

Cheers,

Christophe