From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Christopher Lam <christopher.lck@gmail.com>
Cc: 35920@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35920: strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-8
Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 16:41:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9xxq767.fsf_-_@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKVAZZJ0v1-snrRQj0CAxFikKDy+Xf_FWxHXV4tVJ1mVrnY8ig@mail.gmail.com> (Christopher Lam's message of "Sun, 26 May 2019 18:52:16 +0800")
Hi Christopher,
Christopher Lam <christopher.lck@gmail.com> writes:
> Addendum - wish to confirm if guile bug (guile-2.2 on Windows):
> - set locale to non-Anglo so that (setlocale LC_ALL) returns
> "French_France.1252"
> - call (strftime "%B" 4000000) - that's 4x10^6 -- this should return
> "février 1970"
>
> but the following error arises:
> Throw to key `decoding-error' with args `("scm_from_utf8_stringn" "input
> locale conversion error" 0 #vu8(102 233 118 114 105 101 114 32 49 57 55
> 48))'.
>
> Is this a bug?
Yes. Guile's 'strftime' procedure currently assumes that the underlying
'nstrftime' C function (from Gnulib) will produce output in UTF-8,
although it almost certainly produces output in the locale encoding.
Indeed, the bytevector #vu8(102 233 118 114 105 101 114 32 49 57 55 48)
represents the characters "février 1970" in Windows-1252 encoding.
I'm CC'ing this reply to <bug-guile@gnu.org>, so that a bug ticket will
be created. In the future, that's the preferred address for sending bug
reports.
Anyway, thanks for letting us know about this. I'll work on it soon.
Mark
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2019-05-26 20:41 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2019-05-26 20:53 ` bug#35920: strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-8 Mark H Weaver
2019-05-26 21:48 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-30 19:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-30 21:12 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-30 22:37 ` John Cowan
2019-06-30 23:06 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-07-01 1:28 ` John Cowan
2019-07-02 8:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-02 9:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-02 16:51 ` John Cowan
2019-05-27 0:04 ` Christopher Lam
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