[slime-devel] problem with utf-8

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Nicolas Lamirault <lam at tuxfamily.org>:

| i must read a file encoded in utf-8
| if i read this file from sbcl started in an xterm,
| i haven't got any error.
| i try to make this operation in my SLIME environment, but i have an
| error.

You should always be able to read your utf-8 encoded file, no matter
what coding system you are using with slime.  Just use
:external-format :utf-8 when opening the file.  But if you wish to be
able to print bits of that file using utf-8 to the interaction stream,
you will need utf-8 support from slime, of course.

| so i put this in my emacs's configuration :
| 
| (setq slime-net-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
| 
| but after this i can't start slime

FWIW, I don't use this variable in my setup.  Instead I have this:

(setf slime-lisp-implementations
      '((sbcl ("sbcl") :coding-system utf-8-unix)
	(cmucl ("cmucl") :coding-system iso-latin-1-unix)))

and this works fine for me.
Make sure you have a recent slime (from 2006).

- Harald