From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
To: 20823@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20823: argv mangled by locale
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 22:36:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160814213616.GA22491@fysh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8ibjeum.fsf@pobox.com>
Andy Wingo wrote:
> I also don't
>know whether to supply an optional "encoding" argument, and use that
>encoding to decode the command line arguments.
If you don't fancy the profusion of extra "encoding" parameters on
argv access (this ticket), environment access (bug#20822), and all
sorts of syscalls (bug#22913), you could bundle them all together in
a fluid. This would be a bit like the %default-port-encoding fluid,
but setlocale should absolutely not modify it. It should follow the
scheme that I laid out in bug#24186: its value can be either a string
naming an encoding, or #:locale-at-io meaning that whenever encoding
is required the currently selected locale is consulted. There should
also be a fluid determining the conversion strategy, like the existing
%default-port-conversion-strategy. These two fluids together would
control the encoding and decoding for all operations that currently
apply the locale encoding to arbitrary data. (Decoding locale-supplied
messages is a different matter.)
-zefram
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-14 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-16 4:33 bug#20823: argv mangled by locale Zefram
2016-03-04 23:24 ` Zefram
2016-06-24 6:11 ` Andy Wingo
2016-06-24 8:42 ` Zefram
2016-08-14 21:36 ` Zefram [this message]
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