How do I get quicklisp to load rfc2388 in slime?
common-lisp, quicklisp, sbcl, slime, utf-8
Solution
Have you checked your locale settings? Emacs configuration only tells it what coding systems to set for communication between SLIME and SWANK.
You can check for locale settings with /usr/bin/locale, for example:
navi ~ » locale
LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_TIME=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_PAPER=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_NAME="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
navi ~ »
Mine is setup for UTF-8 everywhere, as you can see, except for displaying 'C' messages.
Problem
I'm trying to load hunchentoot via quicklisp in slime, and getting the following error: ``` READ error during COMPILE-FILE: :ASCII stream decoding error on #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file [redacted]/dists/quicklisp/software/rfc2388-20120107-http/rfc2388.asd" {100607B723}>: the octet sequence #(196) cannot be decoded. (in form starting at line: 29, column: 29, file-position: 1615) [Condition of type ASDF:LOAD-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR] ``` I get this when trying to run either: ``` (ql:quickload "hunchentoot") ``` Or simply: ``` (ql:quickload "rfc2388") ``` It seems that others are getting this too. I found one hint at a possible answer, saying: ``` The system file is encoded as UTF-8. I'm not sure how to configure things so that SBCL on Windows starts with UTF-8 as its default encoding for loading sources, but that's what you need to do. ``` From there, I've tried (based on e.g. [this] adding the following to my emacs config: ``` (set-language-environment "UTF-8") (setq slime-lisp-implementations '((sbcl ("/opt/local/bin/sbcl") :coding-system utf-8-unix))) (setq slime-net-coding-system 'utf-8-unix) ``` But... I still get the same error, even after completely re-starting emacs, to make sure I had a fresh Slime that was reading the above config. So, what am I missing, and/or otherwise how can I get this to load? Thanks in advance! (More thanks to come for a successful answer. ;)