[gambit-list] no more unicode characters?

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Fri May 16 09:18:21 EDT 2014


On May 16, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:

> 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.

Is there a simple way to parse the LANG environment variable to determine the preferred character encoding?

Marc




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