[gambit-list] Changing the console port settings dynamically?

David St-Hilaire sthilaid at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Jul 16 13:17:53 EDT 2009


Marc Feeley wrote:
> On 16-Jul-09, at 12:16 PM, David St-Hilaire wrote:
>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> Is it possible to change the stdout port settings at runtime? I would
>> like to be able to output some utf strings without having to start
>> gambit with the utf-8 flag when launching gsi/gsc... is this possible?
>
> Try:
>
>   (port-settings-set! ##stdout-port (list char-encoding: 'UTF-8))
>
> Note: if you really want the "console port" then use (console-port) 
> instead of ##stdout-port.
>
> Note 2: I guess it is time to add procedures to get the 
> stdin/stdout/stderr, e.g. (stdout-port) to get the standard output.  
> Do other Scheme implementations have an established naming convention 
> for these procedures?
>
> Marc
Thanks Marc! :)

David



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