This comment makes me wonder if ISO-8859-1 is the right default for ttys. Perhaps it would be less surprising if UTF-8 was the default.
Does anyone know of a way to autodetect the tty’s character encoding? It would be nice if xterm could be forced to send a BOM so that Gambit would autodetect the character encoding (if ttys were started with the ___CHAR_ENCODING_UTF_FALLBACK_ISO_8859_1 character encoding mode). But I see no way of doing this after a quick look at xterm’s source code.
There is a certain consistency in using ISO-8859-1 as the default for all I/O ports, so that may still be the “least surprising” default.
Thougths about this?
Marc
On May 16, 2014, at 7:28 AM, Mikael mikael.rcv@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, you need to -:t8 for Gambit terminal IO to go UTF8, see docs.
2014-05-16 13:06 GMT+02:00 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) hkbst@gentoo.org: Hi,
I'm getting this behavior:
$ gsi Gambit v4.7.2
#\à
*** ERROR IN (console)@1.1 -- Invalid '#' name: "\303\240"
is that a misconfiguration on my part somehow?
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