Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick at gmail.com> writes:
>> FWIW, this works for me on my Mac, using clisp 2.49. "zur?ck" is printed
>> (correctly with two dots over the second u).
>
> How confusing! Well, with clisp at least I can dig a bit deeper to see
> what's going wrong on my system. I'll spend a bit of time on it now, I
> think.
Well, that was easy. Now my fish rc contains:
## locale setup. For some reason GDM(?) is setting locale to
## en_GB.utf8. While this works fine in most places, some programs
## (clisp, scl) don't recognise this and their output streams end up
## with the wrong encoding.
set -x LANG en_GB.UTF-8
Thank you, eglibc developers, for deciding to use two different
character strings to denote UTF 8.
Rupert
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