Hi Ben,

This is sitting in my .emacs file:

  (set-language-environment "UTF-8")
  (setq slime-net-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)

(I don't know whether it'll work for you, just as I don't know whether
all the things sitting in my fridge are edible... Good luck. ;)


Tayssir


On Jul 2, 9:00 pm, B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 18:39, Stuart Sierra<the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Ben,
> > Clojure assumes UTF-8 when loading code.  If you want to load source
> > code in a different encoding, you can open a java.io.Reader with the
> > appropriate encoding; the easiest way to do that is probably to use
> > clojure.contrib.duck-streams and bind *default-encoding*.
>
> Thanks, that's great. Defaulting to UTF-8 is the Right Thing to do,
> IMHO. I tried it out and found that I can, for example, name variables
> with greek letters. Neat.
>
> What was confusing me is that slime/swank seem to be using
> iso-latin-1-unix and so trip over greek letters. I've not yet found
> the knobs to twiddle in emacs to get it to use UTF-8 here, but at
> least the problem is not Clojure.
>
> // Ben
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