On Sun, Dec 16, 2012, at 09:31 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > David Pirotte <da...@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 -- msemat...@myopera.com
