On Oct 29, 2011 2:44 AM, "Jeffrey Cunningham" <jeffrey@jkcunningham.com> wrote:
>
> I discovered a way to crash Slime by compiling a simple sexp containing a string. Here are the conditions:
>
> 1. Connect to a running SBCL via swank (M-x slime-connect).
> 2. Cut and paste the sexp below containing the smiley-face into a lisp file.
> 3. Compile the fragment. 
>
> That's it. When I do this the inferior Lisp process is terminated "by remote peer". 
>
> (let ((dangerous-string "This is a smiley-face: ☺"))
>   (print "Important safety tip: don't do this."))
>
> I normally only work with UTF-8 characters, and my ignorance of handling other character sets is probably the culprit here. 
>
> What should I do if I want to enable slime to work with strings like this?

What version of Emacs are you using?

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With best regards, Stas.