Mark H Weaver writes:
> I'll leave this bug open at least until 'seed->random-state your-seed'
> is fixed to support wide strings.
This part is now fixed in commit
fbdcf6358519c415bd2041ca09bee9b16e9d528a on the stable-2.2 branch.
Mark
On 10/18/18 3:56 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Tom de Vries writes:
>
>> On 10/16/18 3:57 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>>> Thanks for the report, analysis and patch. I agree with your analysis,
>>> and the patch looks good.
>>>
>>
>> If so, can the patch be committed?
>
> I just pushed co
Hi Tom,
Tom de Vries writes:
> On 10/16/18 3:57 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> Thanks for the report, analysis and patch. I agree with your analysis,
>> and the patch looks good.
>>
>
> If so, can the patch be committed?
I just pushed commit c2a654b7d29f5e2f32fd1313cc80162fd0c8f992 to the
stable
On 10/16/18 7:13 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> While investigating, I found this bug for GNU libc asking to add an SJIS
> locale, and the developers were strongly opposed:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=136290
FTR, that's a discussion of Fedora/RedHat developers.
This OpenSuse/Su
On 10/16/18 7:13 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> While investigating, I found this bug for GNU libc asking to add an SJIS
> locale, and the developers were strongly opposed:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=136290
>
Thanks for the pointer, that was interesting reading.
> At this poi
On 10/16/18 3:57 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> retitle 33044 Guile misbehaves in the "ja_JP.sjis" locale
> thanks
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Thanks for the report, analysis and patch. I agree with your analysis,
> and the patch looks good.
>
If so, can the patch be committed?
I'm running into this problem
At this point, I'm inclined to believe that Shift_JIS is not suitable as
> a locale encoding on POSIX systems, and that we should not try to
> support it in Guile.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Can you tell me how backslash and tilde are represented in Shift JIS?
>
They aren't: iconv is right. Japa
Mark H Weaver writes:
> Shift_JIS is _mostly_ ASCII-compatible, except that code points 0x5C and
> 0x7E, which represent backslash (\) and tilde (~) in ASCII, are mapped
> to the Yen sign (¥) and overline (‾) in Shift_JIS. Backslash (\) and
> tilde (~) are multibyte characters in Shift_JIS.
Alt
retitle 33044 Guile misbehaves in the "ja_JP.sjis" locale
thanks
Hi Tom,
Thanks for the report, analysis and patch. I agree with your analysis,
and the patch looks good.
However, there's also a much deeper problem here. You found and fixed
one occurrence of Guile assuming that the locale encod
