[slime-devel] Re: Unicode support for CMUCL

[Raymond Toy]

Madhu wrote:
> * Helmut Eller <m28wxnn1si.fsf at common-lisp.net> :
> Wrote on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:13:01 +0200:
> 
> | * Raymond Toy [2008-06-02 00:12+0200] writes:
> |
> |> Here is a small patch to enable support for Unicode for CMUCL.
> |>
> |> Seems to work.  May need some more work on the
> |> *external-format-to-coding-system*, but iso-8859-1 and utf-8 appear to
> |> work ok, for the little bit of testing I've done.
> |
> | Committed.
> 
> The commit calls MAKE-FD-STREAM with an EXTERNAL-FORMAT keyword argument
> But MAKE-FD-STREAM in code/fd-stream and the structure do not support
> this yet?
> 
>    (sys:make-fd-stream fd :input t :output t :element-type 'base-char
> -                      :buffering buffering))
> +                      :buffering buffering
> +                      #+unicode :external-format
> +                      #+unicode external-format))

It's only supported if you have a unicode build, which hasn't been 
officially released yet.

This works for me.  To be useful, you might want to do (setf 
*default-external-format* :utf-8) or something.  You need to set up 
slime too to be able to see something useful.

Ray