Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes:
> In particular: `system*', `execl', `execlp', `execle', `environ', and > `dynamic-args-call' use scm_i_allocate_string_pointers to convert a list > of SCM strings into an argv-style array of C strings. That function > does a simple memcpy for narrow strings, and throws an exception for > wide strings (via scm_i_string_chars). > > `environ' was particularly broken, in that it would use Latin-1 when > setting the environment, and the locale encoding when reading the > environment. The `exec' functions would use the locale encoding to > encode the program name, and Latin-1 for the arguments and environment. > `system*' would use Latin-1 for everything. Ouch, good catch! > This patch fixes all of these inconsistencies, by modifying > scm_i_allocate_string_pointers to use the locale encoding instead of > Latin-1. > > Any objections to pushing this to stable-2.0? Not from me, please go ahead! It would be ideal if you could add a test case, say, for ‘system*’ and ‘environ’. You could use the ‘with-latin1-locale’ tricks. Thanks, Ludo’.
