Re: Character encodings issue with phrase_from_file

On 08/19/2013 08:32 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> The problem is that SWI Prolog is by default processing the external
> file in the expectation that it is coded using UTF-8, and 

No.  SWI-Prolog processes input according to the C99 multi-byte
to wide character functions.  Only if the locale has UTF-8 in
its name, it will replace this by its own UTF-8 handling, which
is a lot faster than what (at least g-)libc offers.  In addition,
you can set the encoding at various places to a small set of
explicit values.  Internally, everything is supposed to be
Unicode (`supposed' as in this is only true if the correct
en/decoding is applied).

	Cheers --- Jan

> a bare \223 or \224 (a) isn't legal at all in UTF8 and
> (b) doesn't represent a quotation mark in Unicode.