ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> 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.

I've added a configure check that defines scm_{to,from}_utf8_string to
scm_{to,from}_locale_string if the former isn't available in libguile.
Seems to work okay.

Obviously there are some cases where we still use the locale functions
explicitly, e.g. parsing command-line arguments.

Thanks for your help.

                     Peter

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Peter Brett <peter@peter-b.co.uk>
Remote Sensing Research Group
Surrey Space Centre