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

[Mirko Vukovic]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Stas Boukarev <stassats at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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
> iso-8859-1 and utf-8 are different encodings, you should read your file
> in whatever encoding it is. And encoding of the communication between
> slime and swank doesn't have anything to do with encoding of files.
>

Thank you for clarifying that for me.

> Set your slime-net-coding-system to 'utf-8-unix and start clisp with
> utf-8, but read your file with
> (with-open-file (stream file :external-format charset:iso-8859-1) ...)

I will give it a shot.

Mirko