Re: propagating a coding setting across source files

[Sven Hartrumpf]

Fri, 2 Dec 2011 04:55:39 -0800 (PST), spk121 wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that, for 2.0.x at least, if you don't
> specify an encoding, it presumes iso-8859-1 as the default.

Not when loading a file with Latin-1 characters:

> cat aa.scm
(define c #\ä)

> guile
GNU Guile 2.0.3
...
scheme@(guile-user)> (load "aa.scm")
;;; compiling /home/s/aa.scm
;;; WARNING: compilation of /home/s/aa.scm failed:
;;; ERROR: In procedure scm_lreadr: /home/s/aa.scm:1:13: unknown character name 
ERROR: In procedure primitive-load:
ERROR: In procedure scm_lreadr: /home/s/aa.scm:1:13: unknown character name 

Sven