The user has to choose an encoding that actually works I had hoped for auto-detection, or at least reasonable defaults and consistent settings. E.g. I found a message in the *inferior-lisp* buffer ("event-history end") saying
Helmut Eller wrote: that iso-8859-1 was used. However, the buffer's mode line says "u". Same for the slime-repl and *slime-events* buffers. Same for many other buffers in Emacs (e.g. Dired), while Lisp source buffers mostly say "--", i.e. ASCII. .slime-history.eld says -*- utf-8-unix (but so far there's only ASCII therein). This is Emacs-21.4 on a Ubuntu Breezy i386 with the default clisp-2.35 (not self compiled) -- with #+UNICODE. How comes? Is that 1/3 a bug-report?
because the packet length field isn't interpreted correctly and the payload of the packet will be truncated I wasn't aware slime is sending packets. I thought it's all Lisp data, readable with READ :)
I think it's then ok to modify the patch to assert :iso-8859-1 on a non unicode clisp. And let the user figure out how to set this??? Regards, Jorg Hohle.