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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 regression in guile 1.9.5
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:18:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m36378pch5.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ocl0bw3m.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:38:05 +0100")

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).

Andy
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-11 21:18 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 [this message]
2010-01-12 11:25                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-01-12 19:36                       ` Andy Wingo
2010-01-12 22:26                         ` Ludovic Courtès

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