Hi, I have a little socket application in AllegroCL, that should send utf-8-encoded strings. I've tested it in standalone alisp and that works fine - server receives them correct. But when I use mighty SLIME, I get '???' instead of my strings. I've set the following variables: ~/.emacs (setq slime-net-coding-system 'utf-8-unix) and ~/.swank.lisp (setq SWANK::*CODING-SYSTEM* ':utf-8-unix) But obviously that doesn't works. I've also checked that these variables were correctly set up: C-h v tells that: slime-net-coding-system is a variable defined in `slime.el'. Its value is utf-8-unix CL-USER> SWANK::*coding-system* :UTF-8-UNIX Thanks. -- A vivid and creative mind characterizes you.