Re: displaying UTF8 characters in and out of a script (guile 2.0.5)

[msematman@myopera.com]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012, at 09:31 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> David Pirotte <david@altosw.be> writes:
> 
> >> However, the same command in a script:
> >> 
> >> #!/usr/bin/guile \
> >> -s
> >> #!
> >> (display "Ćićolina")
> >> 
> >> writes this out: ?i?olina
> >
> > you need to set the port encoding first [for further info see section '6.14.1 Ports'
> > of the manual]:
> 
> Unfortunately that is only a partial solution (it changes the encoding
> of the current-output-port only, not for anything else), and it assumes
> that the user wants UTF-8 output.
> 
> A more comprehensive solution is to put this:
> 
>   (setlocale LC_ALL "")
> 
> at the beginning of the script, which will set the locale according to
> the user's settings (as specified by the environment variables).  This
> is what Guile does when starting an interactive session, and what most
> other interactive programs and scripting languages do as well.
> 
> Also, since your script contains non-ASCII characters, you should place
> a coding declaration in the file so that Guile will know what encoding
> to use when reading it.  If your script is in UTF-8, then put this in
> the first 500 characters of the file:
> 
>   ;;; coding: utf-8
> 
> For more details, see:
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Character-Encoding-of-Source-Files.html
> 
> If you do these things, then your script should work properly even when
> run by a user who has configured a non-UTF-8 locale.
> 
>    Regards,
>      Mark

David, Mark,

Thanks for the detailed explanation, it works now.

Cheers

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