Re: run/sexp doesn't support non-ascii characeters?

[Michael Sperber <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all, 
>
> Seems run/sexp is unable to handle to non-ascii characters? 

Well, scsh generally is not Unicode-capable, so it doesn't natively
know about, say Chinese.

>> (run/sexp (echo "中国"))
>
> Error: illegal character read

>        #\ä
>        #{Input-fdport #{Input-channel 3}}

This, however, means that your input terminal is sending the wrong
byte sequence inside the quotes to scsh, probably one containing a "
or a \ character.

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