Re: [Chicken-users] Unicode inside csi

[minh thu]

2007/4/3, Thomas Christian Chust <address@hidden>:
> minh thu wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > In particular, why value of line 1 is 195 and value of line 2 is 249 ?
> > Actual decimal value for ù is 249.
> > [...]
>
> Hello,
>
> by default, CHICKEN's strings are bytestrings, not character strings.
> Therefore the string-ref call is returning the first byte of the
> extended character marker of UTF-8, not the character itself.
>
> If you want CHICKEN's strings to behave as UTF-8 character strings, have
> a look at the utf-8 egg.
>
> cu,
> Thomas

Thanks Thomas, Thanks John !
thu