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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Subject: Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:28:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877j05wkb5.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87u03aosqt.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:53:14 +1000")

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>> The "i18n" character classification (listed in Section 4.3.2) is
>> actually very broad: it considers at least all Latin, Greek and Cyrillic
>> letters as part of the `alpha' character class.
>
> I think that makes sense.  Just because some letters in a charset are
> not normally used in a particular language is no real reason not to
> have them considered letters.

Yes; based on Kevin's and Ludovic's latest emails, I'm happy now with
the isalpha() solution if we can make it leverage this "i18n"
classification.

>> Another option would be to add, say, a `--charset' command-line option
>> to Guile, or a `set-charset' call, something like that.  Would you
>> prefer something like this?
>
> Doesn't sound like fun.  All the locale stuff is pretty horrible
> already, better just do something sensible with the posix-ish
> selection mechanisms.  Hopefully that'd cooperate best with external
> libraries also trying to navigate the locale jungle.

Agreed.

Regards,
     Neil



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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-15  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-03 16:48 SRFI-14 and locale settings Ludovic Courtès
2006-09-04  6:41 ` Neil Jerram
2006-09-04  9:08   ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-09-04 23:42     ` Kevin Ryde
2006-09-07  7:21       ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-09-07 23:22         ` Kevin Ryde
2006-09-12  9:28           ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-09-12 18:17             ` Neil Jerram
2006-09-13  8:29               ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-09-13 18:07                 ` Neil Jerram
2006-09-14 15:58                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-09-14  0:07             ` Kevin Ryde
2006-09-14 13:22               ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-09-15  0:53                 ` Kevin Ryde
2006-09-15  9:28                   ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2006-09-16 13:46                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-09-18 23:48                       ` Kevin Ryde
2006-09-19 12:28                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-09-19 22:42                           ` Kevin Ryde
2006-09-20 13:21                             ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-09-22 20:02                               ` Neil Jerram
2006-09-25  8:27                                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-09-15 12:03                   ` Ludovic Courtès

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