[slime-devel] how to use utf-8, iso-8859-1 with clisp

[Mirko Vukovic]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Stas Boukarev <stassats at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> (this is with clisp 2.48 on cygwin + windows XP and slime )
>>
>> I can start up clisp on my laptop with utf-8 and iso-8859-1 encodings
>> (clisp -E utf-8, for example)
>>
>> However, setting `slime-net-coding-system' to utf-8 or iso-8859-1
>> gives a slime start-up error since the allowed encodings are
>> utf-8-UNIX, iso-8859-1-UNIX (capitalization mine).
>>
>> I can easily change that in `slime-net-valid-coding-systems'.  But
>> what is going on here?
>>
> You should set slime-net-coding-system to 'utf-8-unix.
>
> --

utf-8-unix does not work for me:

I have a csv file with german umlauts (which begs the question are
there non-german umlauts?)

In bare clisp, I can read this file with under iso-8859-1 encoding,
but not with utf-8 encoding.
Error message is:
*** - READ-CHAR: Invalid byte sequence #xE4 #x74 #x20 in CHARSET:UTF-8
      conversion

(I am surprised by this)

That is the reason why I would like to start with iso-8859-1.

(Maybe I should take this to the clisp group to see what is up with utf-8)

Mirko