On Fri 04 Mar 2016 04:34, Zefram <zef...@fysh.org> writes: > The documentation claims that setting GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE=1 in the > environment is equivalent to calling (setlocale LC_ALL "") at startup. > Actually there is at least one difference: calling setlocale causes ports > (both primordial and later-opened) to be initially configured for the > locale's nominal character encoding, but setting the environment variable > does not. Setting the environment variable leaves the port encoding at > #f, functioning as ISO-8859-1, just as if locale had not been invoked > at all. I do see some effects from setting the environment variable, > specifically message strings affecting strftime.
I believe this is fixed in both 2.0 and master. Thanks for the report. Andy
