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List:       racket-users
Subject:    [plt-scheme] current-locale parameter ignored ?
From:       solsona () acm ! org (Francisco Solsona)
Date:       2002-06-25 14:14:56
Message-ID: 86k7onigwv.fsf () csc01 ! fciencias ! unam ! mx
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Hello,

The manual? says that:

   String and character printing with write is affected by the
   parameter, because unprintable characters are printed with escapes
   (see section 14.4).

which is perfectly reasonable, but no matter what current-locale is
set to, all characters whose char->integer value is greater than 127
are treated as unprintable (i.e. write is *not* affected as stated
above.)

Has anyone else seen this? 

I was expecting something like:

> (current-locale #f)
> (write "M?xico")
"M\351xico"

(which is correct) and also:

> (current-locale "es_ES.ISO8859-1") ;; or es_MX, de_DE, etc.
> (write "M?xico")
"M?xico"

but this doesn't happen, this latter example also prints "M\351xico".

BTW, this is PLT Scheme v.200 on FreeBSD current.

--Francisco

Footnotes: 
? http://download.plt-scheme.org/doc/200/html/mzscheme/mzscheme-Z-H-7.html#%_sec_7.4.1.11




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