Re: unicode support

[Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 17:41 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Игорь Гайсин <igor.gajsin@tts.tv> writes:
> 
> > Hi, dmitriy. Try to add this line to head your scripts
> >
> > (setlocale LC_ALL "")
> > (set-port-encoding! (current-input-port) "utf-8")
> > (set-port-encoding! (current-output-port) "utf-8")
> 
> The 'setlocale' call is indeed important.
> 

Yes, it is. And let me emphasize this again for any non latin-1 users.
Because it's so common that I was asked by others frequently.
My projects are heavily using CJK, so I always put it under shebang
lines to avoid "????" situation:
------------------------code-----------------------
#! /bin/env guile
!#
(setlocale LC_ALL "")
------------------------end------------------------
Don't forget this ;-)


> The next two lines shouldn't be needed, and would cause breakage on
> non-utf8 locales.
> 
>      Regards,
>        Mark
> 
> 
> > Dima <dima@minignu.minidns.net> writes:
> >
> >> Hi.
> >>    Did something change from guile 1.8.x to 2.0 with regards to unicode support.
> >>
> >> I have a script that has strings written on russian without much care, and it does not work on 2.0.
> >>
> >> I want to make sure whether there are changes in guile or something else.
> >>
> >> Thanks, regards,
> >>   Dima.
>