From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: need: scm_from_{utf8,latin1}_{string,symbol,keyword} Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:35:26 +0200 Message-ID: <874oe0mn01.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877hiy3iwn.fsf@gnu.org> <231469.37791.qm@web37905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <87zkvtv5qc.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283949350 15962 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2010 12:35:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:35:50 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 08 14:35:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtJsT-0008U6-C1 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:35:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36315 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OtJsS-0004YJ-KF for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:35:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34075 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OtJsK-0004Y4-Vq for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:35:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtJsF-0003xK-VO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:35:37 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43981) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtJsF-0003xA-Pk for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:35:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtJsE-0008Nr-5b for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:35:34 +0200 Original-Received: from yoda.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:35:34 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by yoda.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:35:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yoda.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 22 Fructidor an 218 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volutio?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?n?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gIBYRvMKnNFKeiMS3RL5/AYIAZI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10894 Archived-At: Hi, Andy Wingo writes: > On Tue 07 Sep 2010 19:11, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Mike Gran writes: >> >>> From: Ludovic Courtès >>> >>>> Besides, there’s the undocumented ‘scm_from_stringn’ and the internal >>>> ‘scm_to_stringn’, which can convert from/to any encoding. I think they >>>> were initially kept internal because we weren’t quite sure about the >>>> API. Mike? >>> >>> Also, I think we were trying to avoid compilation problems based on >>> having to expose the libunistring's enum iconv_ilseq_handle to the world. >>> But later, we ended up creating the analogous >>> scm_t_string_failed_conversion_handler type to work around that problem. >> >> Right. So I guess they can now be made public & documented. Would you >> like to do it? :-) > > Perhaps named scm_{to,from}_encoded_stringn? FWIW I prefer ‘scm_{to,from}_string’ because (i) with these functions the encoding as specified as a parameter instead of as part of the function name (similar to ‘bytevector-u32-native-ref’ vs. ‘bytevector-u32-ref’), and (ii) the word ‘encoded’ doesn’t convey any piece of information. Thanks, Ludo’.