[gambit-list] no more unicode characters?
Marc Feeley
feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Fri May 16 08:12:50 EDT 2014
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 at 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 at 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?
>
> Marijn
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