Re: [Chicken-users] What is the charset of the characters of a string literal?

[John Cowan]

Pedro Henrique Antunes de Oliveira scripsit:

> Not that it *knows*, but I was thinking that if to store a string in
> memory it reads all bytes right after the opening " of the string up
> to the byte right before the closing ", then the encoding of that
> string is the encoding of the source file.

That's exactly what happens, except for the escape sequences.  The
\o and \x escapes don't care about the encoding, and the \n, \t, \r,
\b, \a, \v, \f, and non-letter escape sequences only assume ASCII.
But \u and \U, as I say, generate UTF-8.

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