[gambit-list] Unicode silliness
Marc Feeley
feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Jan 19 20:08:10 EST 2017
Yes it “works”… but for the wrong reasons… try
(pp 🍔)
and you will see your code has no burger in it. That’s because when you entered a burger at the terminal Gambit saw that as a 4 character symbol, i.e. |\360\237\215\224| . To get a real burger (single Unicode character), you need the -:t8 .
Marc
> On Jan 19, 2017, at 8:02 PM, Bradley Lucier <lucier at math.purdue.edu> wrote:
>
>
>> On Jan 19, 2017, at 7:57 PM, Marc Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>
>> If you try this, make sure you start gsi with the -:t8 flag so that the terminal input/output is UTF-8 encoded. That way you can edit the lines more easily.
>
> Really? This seems to work OK (in a Mac OS X Terminal window):
>
> [Media-Mac-mini-3:~] lucier% cat hamburger.scm
> (define (🍔 x)
> (if (< x 2)
> 1
> (+ (🍔 (- x 2))
> (🍔 (- x 1)))))
> [Media-Mac-mini-3:~] lucier% emacs hamburger.scm
> [Media-Mac-mini-3:~] lucier% gsi
> Gambit v4.8.6
>
>> (load "hamburger")
> "/Users/lucier/hamburger.scm"
>> (🍔 6)
> 13
>> (🍔 7)
> 21
>> (🍔 8)
> 34
>>
>
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