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@@ -914,10 +914,11 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
   ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
   short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL 
   squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
   ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
   short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL 
   squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)

-?? minor incompatible change: The default output representation for
-  unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike e.g. #\Newline, don't
-  have names defined in the ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based
-  on their ASCII symbolic names: #\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.
+* minor incompatible change: The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII
+  characters which, unlike e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names
+  specified in the ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their
+  ASCII symbolic names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU CL
+  names (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR.

 ?? Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
   favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
   the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
 ?? Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
   favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
   the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,