Re: [Chicken-users] External representation of strings with non-printable characters

[felix winkelmann]

On 8/3/05, Thomas Chust <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just came across this slightly strange behaviour of CHICKEN on a terminal:
> 
> 
> Although writing all sorts of special characters to the output port as
> themselves works fine for file ports, terminals may get confused by
> this. I think it would be nicer to output characters <32 and >128 as
> hexadecimal or octal escape sequences, at least on a terminal port.
> 

Thanks for reporting this. For the time being I have changed the
printer to escape special characters in readable (quoted) strings.


cheers,
felix