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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, string_abstraction2, updated. fc50695e8d6a5cc0cebc3a8fcd0833ec1ff316a2
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:18:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ab451ekf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1244436693.2499.12953.camel@localhost.localdomain

Hello!

Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> writes:

> Setting a port's default encoding to Latin-1 doesn't work out so well in
> practice.  For example, ports are used as the backend of procedures like
> with-input-from-file and with-output-to-string.  Those procedures don't
> currently take any encoding information and presume some sort of default
> encoding.

Ooh, right.

> I prefer having a port inherit its default encoding from the last call
> to setlocale.

Inherit from the current locale, yes, that sounds preferable.

Thanks,
Ludo'.





      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-18 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1MCZex-00070s-SB@cvs.savannah.gnu.org>
2009-06-05 14:10 ` [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, string_abstraction2, updated. fc50695e8d6a5cc0cebc3a8fcd0833ec1ff316a2 Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-05 14:26   ` Mike Gran
2009-06-06 13:23     ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-08  4:51       ` Mike Gran
2009-06-18 20:18         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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