From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tom de Vries Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: bug#33044: Guile misbehaves in the "ja_JP.sjis" locale Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 01:38:16 +0200 Message-ID: <878acb4d-1f76-5fa1-6ca5-4cd876342912@suse.de> References: <469f2345-5e76-1fc5-1105-f1d508611140@suse.de> <8a6a308f-a981-fd46-93d5-c2d2870f4eb4@suse.de> <87y3ayodqp.fsf_-_@netris.org> <87tvlmo4mw.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539733028 30052 195.159.176.226 (16 Oct 2018 23:37:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 23:37:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 Cc: 33044@debbugs.gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 17 01:37:04 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gCYtb-0007io-P3 for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 01:37:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60596 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gCYvi-0004pS-BE for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:39:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40475) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gCYva-0004pN-NO for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:39:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gCYvW-0007ML-TQ for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:49857) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gCYvW-0007MC-Ne for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gCYvW-0008Jo-Gm for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:39:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Tom de Vries Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-guile@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 23:39:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33044 X-GNU-PR-Package: guile X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 33044-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33044.153973309631888 (code B ref 33044); Tue, 16 Oct 2018 23:39:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33044) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Oct 2018 23:38:16 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54115 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gCYul-0008IF-Rw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:38:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:42036 helo=mx1.suse.de) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gCYuj-0008Hz-Tc for 33044@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:38:14 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay1.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A763DAFDD; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 23:38:07 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87tvlmo4mw.fsf@netris.org> Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-guile" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:9207 Archived-At: On 10/16/18 7:13 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > While investigating, I found this bug for GNU libc asking to add an SJIS > locale, and the developers were strongly opposed: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=136290 > Thanks for the pointer, that was interesting reading. > At this point, I'm inclined to believe that Shift_JIS is not suitable as > a locale encoding on POSIX systems, and that we should not try to > support it in Guile. > > What do you think? My interest here is limited to fixing a gdb regression, so for me not supporting it is fine. Though we should have a reasonable failure mode (so, not abort as is the case for this report). Thanks, - Tom