From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: bug#22902: GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE not equivalent to setlocale Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 18:16:46 +0200 Message-ID: <878txzg7ip.fsf@pobox.com> References: <20160304033452.GB1318@fysh.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466440749 22593 80.91.229.3 (20 Jun 2016 16:39:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:39:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 22902@debbugs.gnu.org To: Zefram Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 20 18:38:51 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bF2Dr-0001nW-0L for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 18:38:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44903 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bF2Dq-0006jf-3I for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; 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c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=g4R3FDy5Ca5nHm2e0q4d8Q/A6JF3Jlqo Gt8j3RL271mIFeHCsmr6e1c1bUOLHckh03BUu5irlwv+eHLXRVYCHAngWpJJb0hu gt8Zh0bDc6bO28al2eFJiq5S9o4xpn288cRMFfNvWhN+N687mIR43eEFoQWRA9nD IMoUAhfDkK4= Original-Received: from pb-sasl1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-sasl1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF742356F; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:16:55 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from clucks (unknown [88.160.190.192]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-sasl1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4B7D42356C; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:16:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20160304033452.GB1318@fysh.org> (zefram@fysh.org's message of "Fri, 4 Mar 2016 03:34:52 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 67731904-3702-11E6-B4CA-C1836462E9F6-02397024!pb-sasl1.pobox.com 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:8030 Archived-At: On Fri 04 Mar 2016 04:34, Zefram writes: > The documentation claims that setting GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE=1 in the > environment is equivalent to calling (setlocale LC_ALL "") at startup. > Actually there is at least one difference: calling setlocale causes ports > (both primordial and later-opened) to be initially configured for the > locale's nominal character encoding, but setting the environment variable > does not. Setting the environment variable leaves the port encoding at > #f, functioning as ISO-8859-1, just as if locale had not been invoked > at all. I do see some effects from setting the environment variable, > specifically message strings affecting strftime. Indeed! Thank you for this analysis; I was wondering why I was getting terrible backtraces in Guile master. Andy