Re: [slime-devel] Re: (code-char 256), connections dies with 256

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when I enter (code-char 256) in the repl, it dies, and in the minibuffer emacs says: Lisp connection died unexpectedly; exit code 256 (to that tune).

Using sbcl 0.9.8.0-1ubuntu3 and slime HEAD from cvs on Linux 2.6.15-27-686.

Do you have

(setq slime-net-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)

That's actually the key. The new sbcl uses the long char name, which consists only of safe letters.

When I made it return a string containing the A-with-macro, the connection died again.

Setting slime-net-coding-system yields the correct result, then.

I guess the packaged slimes look after what the host system uses for encoding and adapts, only I use cvs HEAD.

Error message would be nicer, though.

Thanks for figuring to everybody!

Florian