[slime-devel] Slime and Unicode
Hi, I have tried the latest version of Slime from CVS and found that it does not like Unicode. When I try to do something like (format nil "<unicode text goes here>") It reports an error that the characters can not be presented in iso-latin-1-unix encoding. However, when I changed "slime.el" a bit by adding utf-8-unix (defvar slime-net-coding-system (find-if 'slime-find-coding-system '(utf-8-unix iso-latin-1-unix iso-8859-1-unix binary)) "*Coding system used for network connections. See also `slime-net-valid-coding-systems'.") it started to work just fine. Is there any good reason for using Latin-1 instead of UTF-8? If not, perhaps somebody could patch the Slime to support Unicode in REPL by default? With kind regards, Denys Rtveliashvili
+ Denys Rtveliashvili <rtvd@mail.ru>: | I have tried the latest version of Slime from CVS and found that it does | not like Unicode. [...] | | However, when I changed "slime.el" a bit by adding utf-8-unix | | (defvar slime-net-coding-system | (find-if 'slime-find-coding-system | '(utf-8-unix iso-latin-1-unix iso-8859-1-unix binary)) | "*Coding system used for network connections. | See also `slime-net-valid-coding-systems'.") | | it started to work just fine. The recommended method is not to change slime.el, but to put (setq slime-net-coding-system 'utf-8-unix) in your .emacs. - Harald
| I have tried the latest version of Slime from CVS and found that it does | not like Unicode. [...] | | However, when I changed "slime.el" a bit by adding utf-8-unix | | (defvar slime-net-coding-system | (find-if 'slime-find-coding-system | '(utf-8-unix iso-latin-1-unix iso-8859-1-unix binary)) | "*Coding system used for network connections. | See also `slime-net-valid-coding-systems'.") | | it started to work just fine.
The recommended method is not to change slime.el, but to put
(setq slime-net-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
in your .emacs.
- Harald
Hi Harald, OK, I can do i.t And it is a better way, of course. However, the main question here is why Unicode is not default? Is there a good reason for it? Yes, I understand that for USA and a part of Europe it is not an issue. But the rest of the world does not use Latin-1. And modern OSes use Unicode internally. With kind regards, Denys Rtveliashvili
Denys Rtveliashvili <rtvd@mail.ru> writes:
OK, I can do i.t And it is a better way, of course. However, the main question here is why Unicode is not default? Is there a good reason for it?
My guess is that not all Lisp implementations support Unicode. -T.
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Denys Rtveliashvili -
Harald Hanche-Olsen -
Tobias C. Rittweiler