From: Frederick C. Gibson, Architect
Subject: International characters and strings
Date: 
Message-ID: <UIIb6.76$nv2.80410@news.pacbell.net>
I'm trying to input foreign words such as m�nnlich as a string.  Ideally:
>(read-line)  m�nnlich
"m�nnlich"
Would be the result, but instead I only get "mnnlich"

Lisp seems to know about the � character in that:
>(char "�" 0)
#\latin_small_letter_a_with_diaeresis

If there is no way to use read to get the characters, is there a way to
assemble them into strings?
I tried:
>(string #\latin_small_letter_a_with_diaeresis)
""

In the Allegro 6.0 Lisp, I tried changing the excl:*locale* variable to
Germany, but this didn't help.

Thanks!

Fred Gibson, Architect

Output from the program is at:
http://www.gibson-design.com/philosophy/easg-dictionary.html

·········@gibson-design.com     Architecture Designed Objectively
==================================-----------||||||||||||||||||||||
Frederick Clifford Gibson Architect & Associates

     1220 14th Avenue Suite 106
     San Francisco, CA  94122
     415.753.3797 |tel|  415.759.8848 |fax|

     (c)1999 http://www.gibson-design.com

     ART:  Temple of Triumph *Building* Project
           http://www.art-21.org/Temple
     EASG: Epistemology-Aesthetics Study Group
           http://www.gibson-design.com/philosophy
From: Tim Bradshaw
Subject: Re: International characters and strings
Date: 
Message-ID: <ey366j48qft.fsf@cley.com>
Shouldn't you ask ····@franz.com this.  They're often helpful, and
they probably understand this!

--tim
From: Frederick C. Gibson, Architect
Subject: Re: International characters and strings
Date: 
Message-ID: <lc3c6.76911$Wq1.32156846@nnrp5-w.sbc.net>
"Tim Bradshaw" <···@cley.com> wrote in message
····················@cley.com...
> Shouldn't you ask ····@franz.com this.  They're often helpful, and
> they probably understand this!
>
> --tim
>

Thanks for the advice.  I sent an email to bugs, and apparently the lisp
console window does not support international characters, but the debug
window does.

Fred Gibson, Architect

·········@gibson-design.com     Architecture Designed Objectively
==================================-----------||||||||||||||||||||||
Frederick Clifford Gibson Architect & Associates

     1220 14th Avenue Suite 106
     San Francisco, CA  94122
     415.753.3797 |tel|  415.759.8848 |fax|

     (c)1999 http://www.gibson-design.com

     ART:  Temple of Triumph *Building* Project
           http://www.art-21.org/Temple
     EASG: Epistemology-Aesthetics Study Group
           http://www.gibson-design.com/philosophy
comp.lang.lisp / 2001 / jan