Re: How to write a compute-file producing utf8 output?

[Tomas Volf]

On 2024-06-01 15:39:56 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> skribis:
>
> > I am currently struggling when trying to create a computed-file producing
> > internationalized content.  Simple reproducer is:
>
> I think you found out in the meantime :-), but for posterity, one
> possibility is to set ‘%default-port-encoding’:
>
>   (fluid-set! %default-port-encoding "UTF-8")

Thanks for the information :)

While this approach works (even the set-port-encoding! does), the problem with
this approach is that this needs to be put into every computed-file, making it
easy to forget (especially with #$random-variable, where you might not even know
if Unicode is present or not).  And is not possible at all with likes of
program-file.

So I still hope someone manages to take a look at
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/71257 which should just fix it for everyone across
majority of the G-exp forms.

Have a nice day,
Tomas Volf

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