From: Eric <girzel@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: slime and lisp buffer encoding
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 03:23:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b178719-3db9-4bde-98b0-3ce087614ca6@v23g2000pro.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4108.1249638780.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Aug 7, 5:52 pm, Eric Abrahamsen <gir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Emacs and slime to do a bit of hunchentoot (lisp web server)
> development, and I'm running into an encoding problem. I don't know
> which of the links in the chain is causing the problem, so I hope
> someone here will see what's going...
>
> Basically, using hunchentoot (with cl-who for html templating)
> involves writing the html templates directly into the source code, and
> I'm discovering that I can't type utf-8 text into these source files.
> Compiling a defun with unicode in it results in an encoding error (I
> believe thrown by slime as the defun gets sent to the repl).
>
> I have set everything I can set (file, keyboard, subprocess IO) to
> utf-8-unix. The weird thing is, I can type a Latin accented a (à) into
> the source without trouble. Hunchentoot seems to use a CONTENT-TYPE of
> iso-8859-1 by default, in which case the à shows up fine in the
> browser. If I set content type to utf-8, my browser garbles the à. So
> my lisp strings must be encoded as iso-8859-1, but how did they get
> that way? And how do I make them utf-8?
I'll answer my own question: They got that way because iso-8859-1 is
the default string encoding for OpenMCL. Altering inferior-lisp-
program to add the option "-K utf-8" after the executable results in a
lisp that runs in utf-8 by default. Apologies for the noise.
E
>
> I'm using emacs CVS, slime 3.0 alpha, Mac Leopard, ccl version 1.2.
> Hope someone's got a pointer (if only to the slime or hunchentoot
> mailing lists).
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
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2009-08-07 10:23 ` Eric [this message]
2009-08-07 13:10 ` slime and lisp buffer encoding Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-07 10:26 ` Giovanni Lanzani
2009-08-07 9:52 Eric Abrahamsen
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