It appears that Clojure normally loads source files assuming they are UTF-8, which makes supporting Unicode much easier. This suggests that using a non-ASCII character might not be too hard for them to support.
Source file src/jvm/clojure/lang/Compiler.java routine "loadFile" has this Java line, which I believe forces reading of source code as UTF-8: return load(new InputStreamReader(f, RT.UTF8), new File(file).getAbsolutePath(), (new File(file)).getName()); It's possible to do indirect loading where additional magic is necessary to force configuration of the encoding, as discussed here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1431008/enabling-utf-8-encoding-for-clojure-source-files --- David A. Wheeler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Readable-discuss mailing list Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss
