[erlang-questions] io:getopts() possibly unset when evaluating code

[José Valim]

It seems that, when evaluating code via -eval (or -s or -run), the standard
IO options are not yet set.
In my case, what happens is that the encoding is still set to latin1, while
it should be unicode.

Here is how I reproduce the issue:

$ erl -eval 'io:format("~p~n", [io:getopts()]), halt().'

[{expand_fun,#Fun<group.0.33302583>},
 {echo,true},
 {binary,false},
 {encoding,latin1}]

However, invoking io:getopts() inside the shell returns the proper result:

Eshell V5.9  (abort with ^G)
1> io:getopts().
[{expand_fun,#Fun<group.0.33302583>},
 {echo,true},
 {binary,false},
 {encoding,unicode}]

This means that, if I print any unicode value during -eval (or -s or -run),
it will fail by printing question marks instead of the accented words. This
can be verified with:

$ erl -eval 'io:put_chars(<<"josé"/utf8>>), halt().'

The same inside the console prints correctly.

Is this a bug?
Regardless if it is a bug or not, should I just set
io:setopts([{encoding,unicode}]) for now?

Thanks,

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José Valim
www.plataformatec.com.br
Founder and Lead Developer
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