From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:28:14 +0100 Message-ID: <877j05wkb5.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <87y7t03ngn.fsf@laas.fr> <87slj89lrk.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87wt8krocj.fsf@laas.fr> <87odtvkxl1.fsf@zip.com.au> <87r6yodtv3.fsf@laas.fr> <87ejun5kj7.fsf@zip.com.au> <877j095t91.fsf@laas.fr> <87fyevs42r.fsf@zip.com.au> <87ac52d1lj.fsf@laas.fr> <87u03aosqt.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158312637 25358 80.91.229.2 (15 Sep 2006 09:30:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 15 11:30:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOA1N-0002Hg-QQ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:30:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOA1N-0001hn-8y for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GOA1K-0001cO-6M for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:30:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GOA1H-0001Zg-8O for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOA1H-0001ZV-4C for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:29:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.33] (helo=mail3.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GOA3P-0003vI-LV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:32:11 -0400 Original-Received: from laruns (host86-129-125-104.range86-129.btcentralplus.com [86.129.125.104]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31CDA40A24D for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:29:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from laruns (laruns [127.0.0.1]) by laruns (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02EE96F71D for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:28:14 +0100 (BST) Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87u03aosqt.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:53:14 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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:6091 Archived-At: Kevin Ryde writes: > ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Court=E8s) 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 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel