Re: [gforth] Accented characters

[Anton Ertl]

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 10:14:32PM -0400, Mario Beaulieu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The problem I'm having might not have anything to do with GForth, but let's 
> see. I'm running GForth on a Raspberry Pi (Linux).
> 
> I have a GForth program (notification.fs) that sends notifications to my cell 
> phone. The problem I have is that it replaces accented characters (à, è, é, 
> etc.) with question marks but only if I run it from the command line , like:
>                  GForth notification.fs
> 
> What the file notification.fs does, is compile the necessary words, the main 
> one being SendNotification, and the last line sends a message, like:
>                  s" àéèeeeee"  SendNotification
> 
> If I run it from the command line, it replaces the accented characters, but 
> if I start GForth first and paste the content of notification.fs, it works 
> perfectly.
> 
> Even weirder, if I 'redo' the last line right after running it from the 
> command line, it works!
> 
> The character encoding is UTF-8. I tried with ISO8859-1, with the same result.
> 
> Any idea?

I have no idea what's going on, but you can see what's going on by
doing a 2DUP DUMP before sending the string.  Then you see the bytes
that are sent.

A wild guess is that the string is encoded in some other encoding in
the file, which the editor recognizes, and there is some conversion
going on in the cut-and-paste process.

I am not sure what you mean with 'redo'.

- anton