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Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:29:21 +0200 |
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Hi,
Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> According to SRFI-14, a Latin-1 implementation should contain _both_ `ñ'
>> and `ê' in `char-set:letter', regardless of the current language
>> settings, hence the difficulty we might have building `char-set:letter'.
>>
>> Does that clarify things?
>
> Yes. So it seems to me, therefore, that we should not be using
> isalpha() etc. to construct char-set:letter, but should instead hard
> code it as the intersection of (char-set:letter as specified by SRFI
> 14) with (the set of characters that Guile can represent).
In practice, I can think of two ways to determine the set of _letters_
available in the current encoding (which is what `char-set:letter'
expects).
1. Since SRFI-14 lists all the characters that have to be added to the
ASCII `char-set:letter' to get the Latin-1 `char-set:letter', we
could somehow hard-code them. But this is ugly.
2. Or, we can use a predicate that uses the `is' functions which we
expect to be language-independent (i.e., those functions that only
depend on the locale's charset), such as:
(!isblank (c)) && (!ispunct (c)) && (!isdigit (c)) && (!iscntrl (c))
This is certainly not perfect, but it should work for Latin-1, and
hopefully for other 8-bit charsets as well.
As Kevin mentioned earlier, all the char sets could be re-computed in
`scm_setlocale ()'.
I think I'll give a try to the second option in the next few days if
nobody considers it too silly.
Thanks,
Ludovic.
- SRFI-14 and locale settings, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/09/03
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Neil Jerram, 2006/09/04
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/09/04
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Kevin Ryde, 2006/09/04
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/09/07
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Kevin Ryde, 2006/09/07
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/09/12
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Neil Jerram, 2006/09/12
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Neil Jerram, 2006/09/13
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/09/14
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Kevin Ryde, 2006/09/13
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/09/14
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Kevin Ryde, 2006/09/14
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Neil Jerram, 2006/09/15
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/09/16
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Kevin Ryde, 2006/09/18
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/09/19
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Kevin Ryde, 2006/09/19