I should have said: guile --version Guile 1.8.8 Richard
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 15:05 +0000, Richard Shann wrote: > Can anyone explain what is going on when you try to store strings with > non-ASCII characters? Here is an example: > > guile> (define another-data "Čć") > guile> another-data > "�\x8c�\x87" > guile> (display another-data) > Čćguile> > > I would expect evaluating another-data to give "Čć" not > "�\x8c�\x87" (what is that?)... > > My problem comes with storing an association list with the second > element a string with a non-ASCII character in it. I'm storing the alist > as a string with > > (format #f "'~s" myalist) > > but when I try to store this string on disk using XML it barfs on > reloading. > > Richard Shann > > > >
