Re: Accessing the environment's locale encoding settings

[Peter Brett]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Mike Gran <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Here's a suggestion.  One could add an option to the guile
>> interpreter's command line args (--locale=ARG perhaps) that has the
>> effect of calling setlocale(LC_ALL,"ARG") first thing.  If --locale
>> is called with no ARG specified, it would call to setlocale(LC_ALL,
>> "").
>
> I tried something along these lines:
>

My main objection is that I don't know of any other interpreter that
finds it necessary to have a --locale switch (Perl and Python both
manage without quite comfortably).  How is:

  guile --locale="foobar"

Better than:

  LANG="foobar" guile  ?

                               Peter

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Peter Brett <address@hidden>
Remote Sensing Research Group
Surrey Space Centre