Helmut Eller e9626484@stud3.tuwien.ac.at writes:
Christophe Rhodes csr21@cam.ac.uk writes:
Maybe -- but, unless I read Helmut's work wrongly, it's also the only way of communicating the full space of characters to Emacs -- that is, Helmut's message strongly implied to me that current released versions of the emacsen do not support utf-8 communications in any useful way. Is this correct?
I was wrong. According to the NEWS file the utf-8 coding system was already present in Emacs 21.1., i.e. the first release of the 21 series. Sorry, for the confusion.
Thanks. I can confirm that emacs21 (as distributed by Debian) works fine with SBCL 0.8.16.3x and slime-net-encoding-system set to 'utf-8-unix; also, that it works "out of the box" provided that no character with code-point above 255 is encountered -- if it is, then SBCL's currently incredibly fragile encoding error reporting causes death of the running lisp. :-/
Cheers,
Christophe