[plt-scheme] Encodings

Oh -- if you are interested in editing Latin-1 files in drscheme proper
(rather than just reading them in as part of your program) that is
something that DrScheme could certainly support. (Sorry if I
mis-understood your question)

It doesn't yet, but I do plan to add it, eventually.

Robby

> At Fri, 21 May 2004 07:59:52 -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
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> > 
> > The new mzscheme supports many different encodings. The default is
> > utf-8, but you can certainly read in files that are in Latin-1.
> > 
> > Robby
> > 
> > At Fri, 21 May 2004 14:21:53 +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > >   For list-related administrative tasks:
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> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I am currently developing a piece of software using MzScheme and  
> > > DrScheme. Since it is in French, I use some accents.
> > > 
> > > Currently, DrScheme understands them properly when I use the Latin-1  
> > > encoding. However, I read that v300 will only accept Unicode, which  
> > > means my program will be invalid since it will not be UTF-8 compliant.
> > > 
> > > Is there a plan to support multiple encodings (like Emacs or Jikes), or  
> > > will I have to convert all my accents to UTF-8 for v300? Or maybe is  
> > > there another way to make my code run under both v207 and v300 (other  
> > > than removing accents ;))?
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Sylvain