Hello Stephen, Well, it seems that javac (java compilation tool) accepts this option :
*-encoding* *encoding* Set the source file encoding name, such as EUCJIS/SJIS. If *-encoding* is not specified, the platform default converter is used.So maybe something along those lines for everything that is loaded from streams could be interesting ? Also, I'm guessing that someone programming with encoding XX in his/her source files, will also want to use (by default) the same encoding XX in the REPL, if he want a great experience of copy/paste between the two ? My 0,02€, -- Laurent 2009/3/26 Stephen C. Gilardi <squee...@mac.com> > > On Mar 26, 2009, at 2:44 PM, David Andrews wrote: > > Great catch, Steve. Thanks! My z/OS system now tells me: >> >> $ java -Dfile.encoding=ISO8859-1 -Dconsole.encoding=IBM-1047 -cp >> clojure.jar clojure.lang.Repl >> Clojure >> user=> (+ 1 1) >> 2 >> > > You're quite welcome, David. I gather (via Google search) that you've been > interested in this since November, I'm sorry I wasn't aware of it earlier. > > With your modified Clojure, you may be able to get rid of the "-D" command > line args as well. > > I see in the mailing list history that the UTF-8 encoding for the default > input and output streams was from a patch that was primarily intended to > institute a standard for Clojure's file input format as UTF-8. Even at the > time, the requester (Chas Emerick) was unsure of the advisability of a > change away from Java's default encoding for Clojure's default input and > output streams. The patch included both those changes, so that's the current > behavior of Clojure. > > I think as an interoperability enhancer, having Clojure source files be > required to be UTF-8 encoded is a good idea. In contrast, I think this z/OS > experience shows that doing so for the default input and output streams (and > therefore for the REPL) may do more harm than good. Presumably our JVM host > is providing default encodings for each platform for a good reason and we > should (by default) honor that. > > Right now I think this should be an issue against Clojure and would welcome > some discussion about it. My inclination currently is that we should keep > the UTF-8 standard for encoding Clojure source files, but change the default > input and output streams (and therefore the default REPL) back to using the > platform's default encoding(s). > > There is more discussion in this thread: > > > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/39ba33d15e7633e0/191ee8b83f815189 > > --Steve > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
