Re: UTF-8 regression in guile 1.9.5

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello,

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> On Mon 11 Jan 2010 14:38, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> writes:
>>
>>> But as far as the greater question of the side effects of setting locale
>>> early on startup...  The parsing of any source code files after locale 
>>> is set will be done in that context.  I don't think it would do anything
>>> unexpected. The reader and the port routines tend to do their own parsing,
>>> and don't tend to rely on libc locale-specific routines.  Even so, it 
>>> would take some auditing to prove that there would be no effect.
>>
>> Source files should have the right ‘coding:’ meta anyway.  I just
>> changed the compiler to install the current user locale [0], as that’s
>> typically what a standalone program does.
>
> If we're taking this tack, perhaps we should setlocale in the `guile'
> binary (but not by default when used by a library).

We could, but it would break programs that have been assuming the ‘C’
locale, e.g., when parsing of printing data, etc...

Thanks,
Ludo’.