[hunchentoot-devel] Default external format

[Sebastian Tennant]

Quoth Daniel White <daniel at whitehouse.id.au>:
> 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.

Hmm, just checked the value of SB-IMPL::*DEFAULT-EXTERNAL-FORMAT* and it is
correctly set (by default, as I've done nothing to change it).

The problem only occurs on my CCL development box anyway.  I wonder what the
CCL equivalent of SB-IMPL::*DEFAULT-EXTERNAL-FORMAT* is?

Seb