Re: character set encoding of scheme source files

Jonathan Rees <[email protected]> writes:

> Mike: I noticed the presence of an apparent u-umlaut in your recent
> Scheme 48 sources. This raises an interesting question for me: How are
> various parts of the ecosystem supposed to know what the character set
> encoding of scheme files is? The question hasn't come up much
> previously because Scheme is so retro (or provincial) that most source
> files so far are encoded in 7-bit ASCII, which is a subset shared
> among UTF-8, Latin-1, etc., so until now it just hasn't mattered.

It's come up, and I don't have a good answer yet: The default encoding
of source files is Latin-1.  While the system is capable of reading
other encodings, there's no easy way to influence that setting.  But
it's on my list.  My personal preference is for moving to UTF-8
eventually.

As to the Latin-1 u-umlaut, I was quite consciously following your lead
of putting a © (copyright) character in, for example, doc/deriving.txt
from 0.58.

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Regards,
Mike