RE: [PATCH 1/3] Make string-length documentation more correct

[Maxime Devos]

 

>>  >-Returns the number of characters in the given @var{string}.

>> +Returns the number of bytes in the given @var{string}.

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>> This is false. For example, (string-length "😀") is 1, whereas in all encodings I know of it is >more than one byte. Also, R5RS says: [...]

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>Maybe `the number of codepoints` will work here.

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>(string-length "👨‍🏭") ;; => 3

>(string-length "é") ;; => 2

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>The number of characters here is 1 in both cases.

 

No, in Unicode (and Guile equates character=Unicode character) all characters correspond to a single codepoint.

 

You need to fix your setup, that’s not what Guile does. Are you sure you have set the encoding of current-input-port correctly? (Probably by setting LC_ALL or the like to a UTF-8 locale.) Otherwise the 3 bytes in the UTF-8 encoding might be interpreted in terms of some 8-bit encoding.

 

Here’s a test: if you can input #\👨‍🏭 without errors and it evaluates to #\👨‍🏭, then the encoding should be set up correctly.

 

Best regards,

Maxime Devos