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Re: UTF-8 regression in guile 1.9.5
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: UTF-8 regression in guile 1.9.5 |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:26:48 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue 12 Jan 2010 12:25, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> perhaps we should setlocale in the `guile' binary (but not by default
>>> when used by a library).
>>
>> We could, but it would break programs that have been assuming the ‘C’
>> locale, e.g., when parsing of printing data, etc...
>
> But surely it is the Right Thing;
Perhaps, I don’t know. Apparently Perl does that, for instance. What
do others do? Is there no real reason for POSIX to be this way, other
than backward compatibility?
> is there no way to make a transition to having it there by default?
Not that I can think of.
Thanks,
Ludo’.