[slime-devel] Re: sbcl regression with slime

[Christophe Rhodes]

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

> Christophe Rhodes <csr21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> Maybe -- but, unless I read Helmut's work wrongly, it's also the only
>> way of communicating the full space of characters to Emacs -- that is,
>> Helmut's message strongly implied to me that current released versions
>> of the emacsen do not support utf-8 communications in any useful way.
>> Is this correct?
>
> I was wrong.  According to the NEWS file the utf-8 coding system was
> already present in Emacs 21.1., i.e. the first release of the 21
> series.  Sorry, for the confusion.

Thanks.  I can confirm that emacs21 (as distributed by Debian) works
fine with SBCL 0.8.16.3x and slime-net-encoding-system set to
'utf-8-unix; also, that it works "out of the box" provided that no
character with code-point above 255 is encountered -- if it is, then
SBCL's currently incredibly fragile encoding error reporting causes
death of the running lisp. :-/

Cheers,

Christophe