[slime-devel] Coding systems and .slime-history.eld

[Helmut Eller]

* Harald Hanche-Olsen [2005-11-16 23:13+0100] writes:

> I could fix this for my own part by adding ("\\.eld$" . utf-8) to
> file-coding-system-alist or some other trick like that, or even moving
> to utf-8 as the default coding for all operations, by setting
> coding-system-for-write and coding-system-for-read both to utf-8.  But
> slime users should not be forced to such measures just because they
> use utf-8 to talk to their lisp.

I added a variable slime-repl-history-file-coding-system which
defaults to utf8 if available.  I can't think of a much better fix.

Helmut.