---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vijay Mathew vijay.the.lisper@gmail.com Date: Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [gambit-list] Printing unicode characters in Gambit To: Adam adam.mlmb@gmail.com
Thanks Adam, will try what you suggested. But I really don't understand why a special switch is required to properly print Unicode characters. Even if the user is unaware of this, 'print' going into a loop is bad behavior.
--Vijay
On Jun 26, 2016 8:26 AM, "Adam" adam.mlmb@gmail.com wrote:
You need to switch on unicode output for the output medium (gsc -t8) and maybe also specify the maximum unicode character number that the writer will accept to write. Please report back when you figured.
2016-06-26 10:34 GMT+08:00 Vijay Mathew vijay.the.lisper@gmail.com:
How can I make gambit to print a Unicode character's symbol (or glyph)? For example, I want to display the Unicode infinity symbol ∞ (#\u221E). Calling `(display #\u221E)` or `(print #\u221E)` throws the REPL into an infinite loop. (This happens for most Unicode literals I tried, not just the infinity symbol :-))
$ gsc Gambit v4.8.4(print #\u221E)
*** ERROR IN ##wr-ch -- Can't convert to C char-string (write-char #*** ERROR IN ##wr-ch -- Can't convert to C char-string (write-char #*** ERROR IN ##wr-ch -- Can't convert to C char-string (write-char #*** ERROR IN ##wr-ch -- Can't convert to C char-string (write-char #*** ERROR IN ##wr-ch -- Can't convert to C char-string
Thanks,
--- Vijay
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