[erlang-questions] io format and utf8?

[Davide Marquês]

Hi Kunthar,

Comments below. :)
4> "ğüö".
[287,252,246]
5> "süö".
"süö"
6> list_to_binary("süö").
<<"süö">>
7> list_to_binary("ğüö").
** exception error: bad argument
     in function  list_to_binary/1
        called as list_to_binary([287,252,246])
8> io:format("|~10.3.+ts|~n",["ğüö"]).
|+++++++ğüö|

The ğ character isn't valid latin1 (which is what normally erlang is
expecting).
When calling io:format/2 with non-latin1 strings you have to use ~ts instead
of ~s.
More details:
http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/unicode.html
http://erlang.org/eeps/eep-0010.html

By the way, you need OTP >= R13A to get that to work.

Cheers,
:Davide

2009/5/19 Kunthar <kunthar@REDACTED>

> (tester2@REDACTED)19> io:format("|~10.3.+s|~n",["süö"]).
> |+++++++süö|
> ok
>
> (tester2@REDACTED)20> io:format("|~10.3.+s|~n",["ğüö"]).
> ** exception exit: {badarg,[{io,format,
>                                 [<0.31.0>,"|~10.3.+s|~n",[[287,252,246]]]},
>                             {erl_eval,do_apply,5},
>                             {shell,exprs,6},
>                             {shell,eval_exprs,6},
>                             {shell,eval_loop,3}]}
>      in function  io:o_request/3
>
>
> Comments?
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