[gambit-list] Unicode silliness
Marc Feeley
feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Jan 19 21:11:32 EST 2017
Many of the Scheme standard procedures aren’t documented. By the way, for load to use UTF-8 encoding for the files it loads, you need to add -:f8 option to gsi.
Marc
> On Jan 19, 2017, at 8:50 PM, Bradley Lucier <lucier at math.purdue.edu> wrote:
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>> On Jan 19, 2017, at 8:08 PM, Marc Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
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>> Yes it “works”… but for the wrong reasons… try
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>> (pp 🍔)
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>> 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 .
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> 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).
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> Brad
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