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: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, string_abstraction2, updated. fc50695e8d6a5cc0cebc3a8fcd0833ec1ff316a2 Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:23:28 +0200 Message-ID: <87d49hqywf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d49ibwk0.fsf@gnu.org> <1244212019.2499.8500.camel@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244295328 4855 80.91.229.12 (6 Jun 2009 13:35:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 13:35:28 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 06 15:35:25 2009 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 4.50) id 1MCw3L-00088X-2c for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:35:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58447 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCw3K-0005m9-EK for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:35:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCw3F-0005m4-Fk for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCw39-0005hb-9n for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34298 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCw39-0005hT-5C for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:33848 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MCw38-00079z-Lx for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MCw34-00081j-7y for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:35:02 +0000 Original-Received: from vil93-2-82-66-223-114.fbx.proxad.net ([82.66.223.114]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:35:02 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by vil93-2-82-66-223-114.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:35:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: vil93-2-82-66-223-114.fbx.proxad.net X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 18 Prairial an 217 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ufs6lYWhUeHsskOyu/7BO1ea1/c= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:8634 Archived-At: Hi Mike, Mike Gran writes: > It would make things easier to follow, but, pure 7-bit ASCII would hurt > backwards compatibility. The libunistring conversion funcs do raise > errors when 8-bit chars are converted into ASCII. ISO-8859-1 could be > better so that 8-bit chars wouldn't cause errors by default. Right, Latin-1 would be saner. > Also, I guess setlocale is where one should modify the encodings of > current-input-port, current-output-port and current-error-port, > since they need special handling. These could be Latin-1 when they are created, just like any other ports, and soon after they would be switched to the current locale's encoding. Thanks, Ludo'.