My sources contain some non US-ASCII characters, so they're all encoded in UTF-8. However, loading them fails:

[pjb@kuiper :0.0 lisp]$ LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 abcl Armed Bear Common Lisp 0.20.0 Java 1.6.0_22 Sun Microsystems Inc. Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM Low-level initialization completed in 0.266 seconds. Startup completed in 0.726 seconds. Type ":help" for a list of available commands. CL-USER(1): (load"test-abcl-unicode.lisp") Error loading /home/pjb/src/git/public/lisp/test-abcl-unicode.lisp at line 3 (offset 54) #<THREAD "interpreter" {132021A}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type STREAM-ERROR Input value 0xffc2 is malformed while recoding with charset US-ASCII Restarts: 0: TOP-LEVEL Return to top level. [1] CL-USER(2): (quit) [pjb@kuiper :0.0 lisp]$

What should I do to let abcl read them as UTF-8 and not try to convert them into US-ASCII?

The test file is:

------------------------------------------------------------------------ ;;;; -*- mode:lisp;coding:utf-8 -*-

(defvar *test* "45°")

;;;; THE END ;;;; ------------------------------------------------------------------------