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: need: scm_from_{utf8,latin1}_{string,symbol,keyword} Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:11:23 +0200 Message-ID: <87zkvtv5qc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877hiy3iwn.fsf@gnu.org> <231469.37791.qm@web37905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283880025 18177 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2010 17:20:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:20:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Mike Gran Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 07 19:20:24 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ot1qF-0002o7-63 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:20:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60984 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ot1qC-0007w6-Mx for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:20:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55700 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ot1ph-0007Zd-2u for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:19:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ot1he-00023q-DN for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:11:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]:34907) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ot1he-00023Q-8T for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:11:26 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.56,329,1280700000"; d="scan'208";a="58768758" Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr (HELO nixey) ([80.67.176.83]) by mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 07 Sep 2010 19:11:24 +0200 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 21 Fructidor an 218 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volutio?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?n?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <231469.37791.qm@web37905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (Mike Gran's message of "Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:21:32 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:10882 Archived-At: Hi Mike, Mike Gran writes: >> From: Ludovic Court=C3=A8s > > >> Besides, there=E2=80=99s the undocumented =E2=80=98scm_from_stringn=E2= =80=99 and the internal >> =E2=80=98scm_to_stringn=E2=80=99, which can convert from/to any encoding= . I think they >> were initially kept internal because we weren=E2=80=99t quite sure about= the >> API. Mike? > > Also, I think we were trying to avoid compilation problems based on=20 > having to expose the libunistring's enum iconv_ilseq_handle to the world. > But later, we ended up creating the analogous > scm_t_string_failed_conversion_handler type to work around that problem. Right. So I guess they can now be made public & documented. Would you like to do it? :-) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.