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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 and new ports
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:36:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87myq2obuf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 940333.54559.qm@web37904.mail.mud.yahoo.com

Hi,

Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> writes:

> It seems that port types are inherently 8-bit, right? 
> So to make this work, the ports will have to store and
> transmit characters as UTF-8 encoded data.

Indeed, the C port API in inherently 8-bit.

I don't know if it helps, but Guile-R6RS-Libs[*] provides limited UTF
handling:

  guile> (use-modules (r6rs bytevector) (r6rs io ports))
  guile> (define bv (get-bytevector-all (open-input-string "hello world")))
  guile> (utf8->string bv)
  "hello world"

It assumes that Guile strings are encoded in the current locale's 8-bit
charset, though...

Thanks,
Ludovic.

[*] http://repo.or.cz/w/guile-r6rs-libs.git





      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-15  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-14 21:40 UTF-8 and new ports Mike Gran
2008-02-15  2:39 ` Stephen Compall
2008-02-15  8:36 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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