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

[Edwin Fine]

I would guess probably because Erlang uses ISO/IEC 8859-1, in which 155 is
not defined while the others all are (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1#Codepage_layout). Characters between
137 and 159 are excluded, while all the rest are printable included.

2008/9/30 devdoer bird <devdoer2@REDACTED>

> 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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