Hello!
Mike Gran <spk...@yahoo.com> writes:
> The latest commit 'Add full Unicode capability to ports and the default
> reader' 889975e51accb80491af76fc5db980aeb3edd342 adds the majority of
> the functionality for non-ASCII strings.
This patch adds a few functions related to string ports:
* libguile/strports.c: store string ports in locale encoding
(scm_strport_to_locale_u8vector, scm_call_with_output_locale_u8vector)
(scm_open_input_locale_u8vector, scm_get_output_locale_u8vector):
new functions
I think it would be nicer if these used bytevectors instead of u8vectors
and were locale-independent (which would match the `string->utf8' &
co. API). Also I would make `scm_strport_to_locale_u8vector ()'
private. And finally, it'd be even better if it were documented in the
manual. :-)
Actually I'm not convinced that `call-with-output-locale-*' and
`open-input-locale-*' are useful, precisely because we can use a string
port to get a string and then `string->utf8' to get at the string bits.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Ludo'.
