<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xml+xhtml; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Logtalk entity directive: encoding/1</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../print.css" type="text/css" media="print"/> </head> <body> <div class="top-left">Logtalk reference manual</div> <div class="top-right">Entity directive: encoding/1</div> <div class="bottom-left"><span class="page"/></div> <div class="bottom-right"><span class="page"/></div> <div class="navtop"><a href="../../index.html#directives">contents</a> > <a href="../index.html">reference manual</a> > <a href="../index.html#directives">directives</a></div> <h2 class="codenp">encoding/1<span id="directives_encoding1"/></h2> <h4>Description</h4> <pre>encoding(Encoding)</pre> <p> Declares the source file text encoding. This is an <strong>EXPERIMENTAL</strong> source file directive, which is only supported on some Prolog compilers. When used, this directive must be the first term in the source file. Currently recognized encodings include <code>ascii</code>, <code>iso_8859_1</code>, <code>iso_latin_1</code> (an alias to the previous one), <code>utf8</code>, <code>unicode_be</code>, and <code>unicode_le</code>. </p> <h4>Template and modes</h4> <pre>encoding(+atom)</pre> <h4>Examples</h4> <pre>:- encoding(utf8). :- encoding(iso_latin_1).</pre> <div class="footer"> <div class="copyright"> <span>Copyright © <a href="mailto:pmoura@logtalk.org">Paulo Moura</a> — <a href="http://logtalk.org">Logtalk.org</a></span><br/> <span>Last updated on: October 26, 2006</span> </div> <div class="navbottom"> <span><a href="../index.html">previous</a> | <a href="../../glossary.html">glossary</a> | <a href="../index.html">next</a></span><br/> <span><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">XHTML</a> + <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">CSS</a></span> </div> </div> </body> </html>