From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: bug#35920: strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-8 Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 16:41:57 -0400 Message-ID: <87v9xxq767.fsf_-_@netris.org> References: <877ebt7tc0.fsf@netris.org> <87tvew4efa.fsf@netris.org> <875zrb3ydk.fsf@netris.org> <871s1z3tbq.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="256488"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) Cc: 35920@debbugs.gnu.org To: Christopher Lam Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 26 22:45:18 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hV017-0014ZZ-Lr for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 26 May 2019 16:44:11 -0400 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:39876) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUzzw-0001Qk-TE for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sun, 26 May 2019 16:44:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mhw by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hUzzj-0000L8-QU; Sun, 26 May 2019 16:43:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Christopher Lam's message of "Sun, 26 May 2019 18:52:16 +0800") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x 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: 209.51.188.43 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:9329 Archived-At: Hi Christopher, Christopher Lam 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 > "f=C3=A9vrier 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 "f=C3=A9vrier 1970" in Windows-1252 encoding. I'm CC'ing this reply to , 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