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Re: UTF-8 regression in guile 1.9.5
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: UTF-8 regression in guile 1.9.5 |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:25:09 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
> On Mon 11 Jan 2010 14:38, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> But as far as the greater question of the side effects of setting locale
>>> early on startup... The parsing of any source code files after locale
>>> is set will be done in that context. I don't think it would do anything
>>> unexpected. The reader and the port routines tend to do their own parsing,
>>> and don't tend to rely on libc locale-specific routines. Even so, it
>>> would take some auditing to prove that there would be no effect.
>>
>> Source files should have the right ‘coding:’ meta anyway. I just
>> changed the compiler to install the current user locale [0], as that’s
>> typically what a standalone program does.
>
> If we're taking this tack, perhaps we should setlocale in the `guile'
> binary (but not by default when used by a library).
We could, but it would break programs that have been assuming the ‘C’
locale, e.g., when parsing of printing data, etc...
Thanks,
Ludo’.