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From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: "guile-devel@gnu.org" <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The “binary-friendly” Latin-1
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:01:35 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <526443.96720.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)

> From:Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>

> Hello!
> 
> >>   1. The notion of a “binary-friendly” ISO-8859-1 encoding?  It’s
> >>     actually mostly gone with the iconv change, since every textual
> >>     access goes through iconv.  For binary accesses, the right API is
> >>     (rnrs io ports) or similar.
> >
> > An equivalent question is if you care about backward compatibility of
> > legacy ports.  Legacy ports returned strings and were once the only option.
> 
> You mean if there’s legacy code using a port of unspecified encoding to
> read binary data, right?
> 
> The iconv change doesn’t break it on GNU/Linux:

Cool.  Have you considered what you would want to do with 
the 'recv!' procedure?

[...]

> > Is the cost of doing the various string comparisons of port-encoding
> > strings negligible?  It was put in as a (premature) optimization.
> 
> The new code keeps open iconv conversion descriptors for each port and
> re-uses them; the only use of pt->encoding is when opening those CDs.

Sounds good.

Thanks,

Mike




             reply	other threads:[~2011-01-25 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-25 14:01 Mike Gran [this message]
2011-01-25 19:58 ` The “binary-friendly” Latin-1 Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-26 18:31 Mike Gran
2011-01-28 11:15 ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-29 14:29   ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-01-24 23:21 Mike Gran
2011-01-25 10:19 ` Hans Aberg
2011-01-25 13:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-01-24 22:26 Ludovic Courtès

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