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

[Alan M. G. <alm...@gm...>]

Ugh.  Non-ASCII is hard to type on a majority of keyboards unless you
add special stuff.  I don't think that'll increase acceptance.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:58 AM, David A. Wheeler
<dwh...@dw...> wrote:
> 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
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