0.8.16.14:

	External format support
	... not latin9, though -- need to think about how that might work
		in a character-poor sbcl.
	... delete accented characters in comments from
		package-locks.impure.lisp -- Something Will Have To Be Done

	This patch brought to you by the letters U, T, F and the number 8.

CREDITS

@@ -557,6 +557,11 @@ Miles Egan:
   He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other
   (which?) platforms.
 
+Andreas Fuchs:
+  He provides infrastructure for monitoring build and performance
+  regressions of SBCL.  He assisted with the integration of the
+  Unicode work.
+
 Nathan Froyd:
   He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal
   cleanup, not visible at the user level but important for
@@ -579,7 +584,8 @@ Espen S Johnsen:
 
 Teemu Kalvas:
   He worked on Unicode support for SBCL, including parsing the Unicode
-  character database and restoring the FAST-READ-CHAR optimization.
+  character database, restoring the FAST-READ-CHAR optimization and
+  developing external format support.
 
 Frederik Kuivinen:
   He showed how to implement the DEBUG-RETURN functionality.

NEWS

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
+  * the system now has rudimentary external-format support; the
+    primary user-visible change at this time is that characters with
+    the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will print correctly
+    to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
   * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
     however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
   * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables

package-data-list.lisp-expr

@@ -1900,7 +1900,7 @@ no guarantees of interface stability."
 	       "EUSERS" "EVICEERR" "EVICEOP" "EWOULDBLOCK" "EXDEV"
 
 	       "FD-ISSET" "FD-SET" "LTCHARS" "UNIX-FAST-SELECT"
-	       "UNIX-FILE-KIND" "UNIX-KILL" 
+	       "UNIX-FILE-KIND" "UNIX-KILL" "CODESET"
 	       "TCSETPGRP" "FD-ZERO" "FD-CLR" "CHECK" "UNIX-RESOLVE-LINKS"
 	       "FD-SETSIZE" "TCGETPGRP" "UNIX-FAST-GETRUSAGE"
 	       "UNIX-SIMPLIFY-PATHNAME" "UNIX-KILLPG"