[Readable-discuss] Clojure supports UTF-8 (thus, easy Unicode support)

[David A. W. <dwh...@dw...>]

It appears that Clojure normally loads source files assuming they are UTF-8,
which makes supporting Unicode much easier.  This suggests that using a non-ASCII
character might not be too hard for them to support.

Source file src/jvm/clojure/lang/Compiler.java routine "loadFile" has this Java line,
which I believe forces reading of source code as UTF-8:
  return load(new InputStreamReader(f, RT.UTF8), new File(file).getAbsolutePath(), (new File(file)).getName());

It's possible to do indirect loading where additional magic is necessary to force
configuration of the encoding, as discussed here:
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1431008/enabling-utf-8-encoding-for-clojure-source-files

--- David A. Wheeler