Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> I committed the patch into HEAD, along with the following doc bits
>> (under ``Standard Character Sets''):
>>
>>   Currently, the contents of these character sets are recomputed upon a
>>   successful @code{setlocale} call (@pxref{Locales}) in order to reflect
>>   the characters available in the current locale's codeset.  For
>>   instance, @code{char-set:letter} contains 52 characters under an ASCII
>>   locale (e.g., the default @code{C} locale) and 117 characters under an
>>   ISO-8859-1 (``Latin-1'') locale.
>>
>> I'll eventually merge it into the 1.8 branch if nobody disagrees.
>
> As long as you're happy that 1.8-targeting programs can't reasonably
> be relying on some detail that has now changed, that sounds fine.

Indeed, I'm pretty confident about it (and in any case, only
`setlocale'-using programs would see the difference).

Thus, I just merged it into 1.8.

Thanks,
Ludovic.