[hunchentoot-devel] Default external format

[Daniel White]

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:54:38 +0000
Sebastian Tennant <sebyte at smolny.plus.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, I can't pin the problem I'm having down.  In my last post (which
> began "Stop press!") I thought it must be a SWANK/SLIME issue, but I experience
> the same weird behaviour if I run ccl from a shell.
> 
> In short, immediately after load'ing my handler via my init file at startup,
> any non-ascii text in my handler is garbled in the browser.  If I then copy and
> paste the handler into the REPL, i.e., re-evaluate it, the non-ascii text is
> displayed correctly.  What on earth could be causing this?

This sounds suspiciously like a problem we were having where the locale
wasn't properly set, resulting in SB-IMPL::*DEFAULT-EXTERNAL-FORMAT*
having a value that wasn't :UTF8.

-- 
Daniel White