[gambit-list] no more unicode characters?

Hendrik Boom hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Fri May 16 08:56:50 EDT 2014


On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 08:12:50AM -0400, Marc Feeley wrote:
> 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's always the environment variable LANG.  On my machine env tell me 
         LANG=en_CA.utf8
and the .utf8 on the en_CA clues me in.

-- hendrik

> 
> 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



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