From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 regression in guile 1.9.5
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:26:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdf7hsd3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ockzm7xo.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:36:51 +0100")
Hello,
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
> On Tue 12 Jan 2010 12:25, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>> 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...
>
> But surely it is the Right Thing;
Perhaps, I don’t know. Apparently Perl does that, for instance. What
do others do? Is there no real reason for POSIX to be this way, other
than backward compatibility?
> is there no way to make a transition to having it there by default?
Not that I can think of.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-12 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-06 18:43 UTF-8 regression in guile 1.9.5 Linas Vepstas
2009-12-06 19:16 ` Mike Gran
2009-12-06 19:33 ` Linas Vepstas
2009-12-06 20:40 ` Mike Gran
2009-12-06 20:43 ` Linas Vepstas
2009-12-11 10:29 ` Andy Wingo
2009-12-11 15:05 ` Mike Gran
2009-12-11 15:40 ` Linas Vepstas
2009-12-11 22:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-01-09 18:07 ` Andy Wingo
2010-01-10 22:00 ` Mike Gran
2010-01-11 13:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-01-11 21:18 ` Andy Wingo
2010-01-12 11:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-01-12 19:36 ` Andy Wingo
2010-01-12 22:26 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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