[gambit-list] Unicode silliness

Bradley Lucier lucier at math.purdue.edu
Thu Jan 19 20:50:36 EST 2017


> On Jan 19, 2017, at 8:08 PM, Marc Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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 .

There doesn’t seem to be any documentation for the “load” procedure in the gambit documentation (hard to believe, I know, but I sure as hell couldn’t find any).

Brad




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