[erlang-questions] utf8 in source files

[Allan Wegan]

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>> Just let them use UTF-8 at will. As long as they do not use any
>> non-ASCII code points in language constructs except binary string
>> literals, they should be on the safe side anyway.
> 
> May be I'm wrong in my understanding of binary string literal is wrong.
> But using non-ASCII letters in binaries has been the place where I
> first realized, that I did store my erlang source code in utf-8 instead
> of latin-1.
> 
> The following code does print "Size: 6" if encoded in latin-1 and "Size:
> 12" if encoded in utf-8.

It works as expected: Put UTF-8 in and you get UTF-8 out. Put ISO-8859-1
in and you get exactly that out.
If you want to use UTF-8 "string literals", just edit the source code as
UTF-8 and use binaries for string storage. Beware, that $Ä does
currently _not_ work even when used in binaries. Only the first byte of
the code point in UTF-8 representation makes it into the resulting
binary (at least on my system running R14A on windows).

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