[slime-devel] Unicode character misbehavior?

[Pixel // pinterface]

Jeffrey Cunningham wrote:
> Try this, Bernard:
>
> Start SBCL in a terminal - not through Slime.
>
> (require 'swank)
> (swank:create-server :port 4007 :style :spawn :dont-close t)
>
> Now start emacs, and connect to the running Lisp through swank on
> 4005:
>
> M-x slime-connect
> 127.0.0.1
> 4007
>
> Cut the following from this email and paste it into Slime's REPL and
> evaluate it:
>
> (elt "?" 0)
>
> When I do that Slime dies and the Lisp says:
>
>
> ;; swank:close-connection: end of file on
> #<SB-IMPL::STRING-INPUT-STREAM {1002FD93B1}>
>
>
> Actually, it frequently dies before I can even evaluate it. Just
> having that character in the buffer kills the connection.

An appropriate :coding-system when starting the server would probably help.
E.g.:
  (swank:create-server :port 4007 :style :spawn :dont-close t
                       :coding-system "utf-8-unix")

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