Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribis: > On Sun 16 Dec 2012 21:31, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > >> 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 > > I think the default is utf-8 now, correct?
Yes. I just noticed that it’s only stealthily mentioned under “Compilation”: Each FILE is assumed to be UTF-8-encoded, unless it contains a coding declaration as recognized by `file-encoding' (*note Character Encoding of Source Files::). Ludo’.