Re: Accessing the environment's locale encoding settings

[CCing bug-gnulib. This is a reply to ]. Hi Ludovic, > I’m now convinced that an implicit setlocale(LC_ALL, "") is the right > thing for ‘master’. Good, glad that I could help with my opinion :) > For 2.0, though, this brings

Re: Accessing the environment's locale encoding settings

>From: Ludovic Courtès >>Bruno Haible skribis: > >> No, I'm suggesting to let the Scheme code know that is it using the user's >> locale. >> >> Yes, this is a backward-incompatible change, so probably you won't want to >> do it on the guile 2.0.x branch, and you will want to advertise it in the >

Re: Accessing the environment's locale encoding settings

Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible skribis: > No, I'm suggesting to let the Scheme code know that is it using the user's > locale. > > Yes, this is a backward-incompatible change, so probably you won't want to > do it on the guile 2.0.x branch, and you will want to advertise it in the > release notes or NEW

Re: Accessing the environment's locale encoding settings

Ludovic Courtès wrote: > It seems to me that the implicit call is often desirable, but at the > same time, it imposes a policy on the application. In C, Guile, & co., > the application can choose to ignore the locale, or to just honor > LC_CTYPE, or to set something different. What it actually do