[erlang-questions] Why are the two strings outputed in diffrent format?

[devdoer bird]

OK.  Then I 'll take a look at it io_lib.erl. But one more question: why
the value 155 is unprintable while 228 is , considering they are both
greater than 128.

Thanks.

2008/9/30 Edwin Fine <erlang-questions_efine@REDACTED>

> It is because one of the integers in y (155) is not considered printable by
> Erlang.
>
> 17> X = "\326\320\271\372".
> "\326\320\271\372"
> 18> Y = [228,184,173,229,155,189].
> [228,184,173,229,155,189]
> 19> [{I, io_lib:printable_list([I])} || I <- X].
> [{214,true},{208,true},{185,true},{250,true}]
> 20> [{I, io_lib:printable_list([I])} || I <- Y].
> [{228,true},
>  {184,true},
>  {173,true},
>  {229,true},
>  {155,false},
>  {189,true}]
> 21>
>
> 2008/9/29 devdoer bird <devdoer2@REDACTED>
>
>>   HI:
>>
>> I have a utf8  encoded file y.erl:  the source is :
>> -module(y).
>> -compile(export_all).
>> output2()->
>>     "中文".
>>
>>
>> And a latin encoded file x.erl, the source is:
>>  -module(x).
>> -compile(export_all).
>> output2()->
>>     "中文".
>>
>> When execute them in erlang shell,
>> 1> x:output2().
>> "\326\320\271\372"
>> 2>y:output2().
>> [228,184,173,229,155,189]
>>
>> I don't know why they  are outupted in diffrent format, one is
>> string-format, the other is list-format. Why aren't they birth outputed in
>> string-format or both in list-format?
>>
>>
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