[Ecls-list] Hi Juanjo,Chinese words work in windows console [UTF-8?]nowï¼

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:15 PM, R. Mattes <rm at mh-freiburg.de> wrote:

> > I cannot cope with this at the level of encoding, because that would
> > break Unix applications and would make ECL work differently on Windows
> > and on Unix. Instead I have hacked a simpler solution: BOM is
> > interpreted by the Lisp reader as a whitespace.
>
>  ... but this is not a hack - the BOM _is_ zero-width nonbreaking space
> and hence
> should be treated as whitespace.
>

A Windows programmer might consider it a "hack" in the sense that Windows
libraries ignore the initial BOM and only use it to signal the UTF-8
encoding -- when you read the file, the character is discarded (it is not
returned for the programmer to interpret it as a whitespace).

Juanjo

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