Re: need: scm_from_{utf8,latin1}_{string,symbol,keyword}

[Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>]

Hi,

On Tue 07 Sep 2010 19:11, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
>>
>>> Besides, there’s the undocumented ‘scm_from_stringn’ and the  internal
>>> ‘scm_to_stringn’, which can convert from/to any encoding.  I  think they
>>> were initially kept internal because we weren’t quite sure about  the
>>> API.  Mike?
>>
>> Also, I think we were trying to avoid compilation problems based on 
>> 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?  :-)

Perhaps named scm_{to,from}_encoded_stringn? Giving the more brief names
to the more general functions sits a bit strange with me. But that could
just be me :)

Andy
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