On Jul 2, 2009, at 1:00 PM, B Smith-Mannschott wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 18:39, Stuart Sierra<the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com > > wrote: >> >> 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*. >> > > Thanks, that's great. Defaulting to UTF-8 is the Right Thing to do, > IMHO. I tried it out and found that I can, for example, name variables > with greek letters. Neat. > > What was confusing me is that slime/swank seem to be using > iso-latin-1-unix and so trip over greek letters. I've not yet found > the knobs to twiddle in emacs to get it to use UTF-8 here, but at > least the problem is not Clojure. (setq slime-net-coding-system 'utf-8-unix) :) user> (def שלם 'peace) #'user/שלם user> שלם peace Interestingly, Emacs doesn't seem to change the writing direction, but when I pasted it into my mail client it did the right (-to-left) thing. This stuff is tricky. — Daniel Lyons --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
