Re: [Sbcl-help] Literal unicode characters in strings (sbcl vs. cmucl) [SOLVED!]

[Teemu L. <tli...@ik...>]

* 2011-08-13T10:48:45-07:00 * Don Geddis wrote:

> I didn't have an $LC_CTYPE variable.  But it turns out that, something
> like ten years ago, I put the following in my .tcshrc:
>         setenv LC_ALL C
> The associated comment says
>         # Fix the sort order of "ls"
> Who knows what was happening at the time, and what kind of filename
> sorting in "ls" I was seeing, and how I thought this would fix it.

Glibc checks LC_ALL first and uses its value if it exists. If LC_ALL is
empty then the appropriate LC_* (e.g., LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE) variable is
inspected. If that is empty then LANG variable is inspected.

>         locale -k LC_CTYPE | grep charmap
> now returns "UTF-8", sbcl correctly loads source files with such
> encodings, etc.

You can just type "locale charmap" to get the effective character
encoding.