Hi Ben, Clojure assumes UTF-8 when loading code. If you want to load source code in a different encoding, you can open a java.io.Reader with the appropriate encoding; the easiest way to do that is probably to use clojure.contrib.duck-streams and bind *default-encoding*.
-SS On Jul 2, 2:20 am, B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > When clojure loads a source file, how does it know what encoding to > use? Does it just assume Latin-1? Does it just use platform encoding > (not the same on all platforms!)? Is there a way to tell it the source > is UTF-8 encoded? If not, perhaps following the Python/Emacs > convention might be sensible: > > ; -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > > on the first or second line of the file. > > How about at the REPL? > > // Ben --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---