Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribis: >> Otherwise, %default-port-encoding governs (info "(guile) String Ports"): > > But why?
Because %default-port-encoding specifies the default port encoding? :-) I think that was mostly the reason behind <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/9822>. > You mention one use case: > >> as a smart way to do encoding conversion. > > But surely this is not a common case and is adequately handled by > set-port-encoding!, potentially via an optional argument. Yes. So you could change the default string port encoding to UTF-8, and update the doc accordingly, as I wrote in <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11197>: In hindsight, UTF-8 does seem like a better default than the locale port encoding (which is what %default-port-encoding is, by default), but it does remain useful to specify a different encoding. I just think this may have to wait until 2.2. WDYT? Ludo’.
