[slime-devel] slime dies on printing some characters?

[Andras Simon]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, T Taneli Vahakangas wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm a newb to lisp (using sbcl), slime and emacs, so maybe this is
> a FAQ or some other trivia I just can't find ... anyway, doing this:
>
> (string #\UGARITIC_LETTER_ALPA)
>
> causes slime to die and complain on emacs bottom-line about:
> error in process filter: net-read error: (end-of-file)
>
> If I start sbcl from the command-line it works. Most other
> interesting characters work, like, say #\ARABIC_LETTER_HAMZA or
> #\HEBREW_LETTER_ALEF, but for whatever reason ugaritic and some
> others don't. I don't have a comprehensive list, but besides
> ugaritic, at least #\LANGUAGE_TAG kills slime.
>
> What can be done about it? Is there a setting somewhere that
> needs to be (un)done?

(setq slime-net-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)

This is from the docs. I also found

http://nolan.eakins.net/node/150

useful.

Andras