[Chicken-janitors] Re: #146: several char-sets seem to be broken

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#146: several char-sets seem to be broken
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  Reporter:  syn             |       Owner:                  
      Type:  defect          |      Status:  reopened        
  Priority:  major           |   Milestone:  4.3.0           
 Component:  core libraries  |     Version:  4.3.0           
Resolution:                  |    Keywords:  srfi-14 char-set
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Comment(by felix):

 Replying to [comment:3 syn]:
 > This is very odd as my terminal is very well able to display characters
 like é. I attach the file created by
 >
 > {{{
 > (with-output-to-file "/tmp/char-set-problem" (cut print (char-
 set->string char-set:letter)))
 > }}}
 >
 > This is on Arch Linux 2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 4 14:59:45 UTC
 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel
 GNU/Linux with LANG=en_US.utf8 (if that helps).
 >

 Thanks for the file. The hexdump is:

 00000000: fffe fdfc fbfa f9f8 f6f5 f4f3 f2f1 f0ef  ................
 00000010: eeed eceb eae9 e8e7 e6e5 e4e3 e2e1 e0df  ................
 00000020: dedd dcdb dad9 d8d6 d5d4 d3d2 d1d0 cfce  ................
 00000030: cdcc cbca c9c8 c7c6 c5c4 c3c2 c1c0 bab5  ................
 00000040: aa7a 7978 7776 7574 7372 7170 6f6e 6d6c  .zyxwvutsrqponml
 00000050: 6b6a 6968 6766 6564 6362 615a 5958 5756  kjihgfedcbaZYXWV
 00000060: 5554 5352 5150 4f4e 4d4c 4b4a 4948 4746  UTSRQPONMLKJIHGF
 00000070: 4544 4342 410a                           EDCBA.

 The 0xff at the start is a valid latin1 character ("yumlaut").

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