Re: A question about scm_{to,from}_locale_string()

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello,

Peter TB Brett <peter@peter-b.co.uk> skribis:

> All of our strings are encoded as UTF-8, but we can't use
> scm_to_utf8_stringn() and scm_from_utf8_string() because they don't
> exist in Guile 1.8.8 (which we're going to have to continue to support
> for some time).
>
> The question, then, is whether using scm_{to,from}_locale_string() with
> UTF-8 strings will "just work" in both Guile 1.8.8 and Guile 2.0.1 as
> long as we make sure that the current locale is a UTF-8 locale?

Yes, it should work.

However, in Guile 2.0.x, you'd better use scm_{to,from}_utf8_string to
avoid relying on the locale settings.  You could use a configure check
for that.

Thanks,
Ludo'.