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
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-stringThanks,--- Vijay
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