Re: displaying UTF8 characters in and out of a script (guile 2.0.5)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun 16 Dec 2012 21:31, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Also, since your script contains non-ASCII characters, you should place
>> a coding declaration in the file so that Guile will know what encoding
>> to use when reading it.  If your script is in UTF-8, then put this in
>> the first 500 characters of the file:
>>
>>   ;;; coding: utf-8
>
> I think the default is utf-8 now, correct?

Yes.  I just noticed that it’s only stealthily mentioned under
“Compilation”:

     Each FILE is assumed to be UTF-8-encoded, unless it contains a
     coding declaration as recognized by `file-encoding' (*note
     Character Encoding of Source Files::).

Ludo’.