On Tue 16 Jun 2015 06:33, Zefram <zef...@fysh.org> writes: > I don't see any Scheme interface that reliably retrieves the command > line arguments without locale decoding. [...] > The actual data passed between processes is an octet string, and > there really needs to be some reliable way to access that octet string. > My comments about resolution in bug#20822 "environment mangled by locale" > mostly apply here too, with a slight change: it seems necessary to store > the original octet strings and decode at the time program-arguments is > called. With that change, the decoding can be responsive to setlocale > (and in particular can reliably use ISO-8859-1 in the absence of > setlocale).
Proposal: scm_i_set_boot_program_arguments just copies the bytes, and scm_program_arguments decodes them. I don't know whether to save the locale that was current at program start and use that locale to decode the arguments, or default the current locale, or what. I also don't know whether to supply an optional "encoding" argument, and use that encoding to decode the command line arguments. Thoughts, Mark and Ludovic? Andy
