Hello,
Germán Diago writes:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I did a script that parses some file with the GDP since 1970 for many
> countries. I filter the file and discard uninteresting fields, later I
> write in a format suitable for gnuplot.
>
Wow, you started programming before I was born!
> I did t
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:42:38 + (UTC)
> From: Mike Gran
> Cc: "guile-user@gnu.org"
>
> Earlier in the 2.0.x release series, Guile had a hack where it started
> up in a Latin-1 encoding, which would be capable of storing any
> 8-bit string of bytes, even if they weren't Latin-1.
Latin-1
Eli Zaretskii :
>> From: Marko Rauhamaa
>>
>> UTF-8 beautifully bridges the interpretation gap between 8-bit character
>> strings and text. However, the interpretation step should be done in the
>> application and not in the programming language.
>
> You can't do that in an environment that spec
On Monday, January 30, 2017 12:00 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Actually, the need arises even sooner. Consider how load-path is set
> up during startup: it starts with the directory from which Emacs was
> invoked, either from argv[0] or by looking up PATH. Either way, you
> get a file name that i
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 21:32:41 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii
> Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
>
> > Hm, I know that XEmacs-Mule emphatically does not have unibyte strings
> > (and Stephen considers them a complication and abomination that should
> > never have been left in Emacs), so it must be possible
> From: Marko Rauhamaa
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 21:01:31 +0200
> Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
>
> UTF-8 beautifully bridges the interpretation gap between 8-bit character
> strings and text. However, the interpretation step should be done in the
> application and not in the programming language.
You c
> From: David Kastrup
> Cc: ma...@pacujo.net, guile-user@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:00:03 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
> > One other crucial detail is that Emacs also has unibyte strings
> > (arrays of bytes), which are necessary during startup, when Emacs
> > doesn't yet know ho
Marko Rauhamaa writes:
> David Kastrup :
>
>> Marko Rauhamaa writes:
>>> Guile's mistake was to move to Unicode strings in the operating system
>>> interface.
>>
>> Emacs uses an UTF-8 based encoding internally [...]
>
> C uses 8-bit characters. That is a model worth emulating.
That's Guile-1.8
David Kastrup :
> Marko Rauhamaa writes:
>> Guile's mistake was to move to Unicode strings in the operating system
>> interface.
>
> Emacs uses an UTF-8 based encoding internally [...]
C uses 8-bit characters. That is a model worth emulating.
UTF-8 beautifully bridges the interpretation gap bet
> From: David Kastrup
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:32:14 +0100
> Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
>
> Emacs uses an UTF-8 based encoding internally: basically, valid UTF-8 is
> represented as itself, there is a number of coding points beyond the
> actual limit of UTF-8 that is used for non-Unicode character
Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> From: David Kastrup
>> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:32:14 +0100
>> Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
>>
>> Emacs uses an UTF-8 based encoding internally: basically, valid UTF-8 is
>> represented as itself, there is a number of coding points beyond the
>> actual limit of UTF-8 that is
Marko Rauhamaa writes:
> David Kastrup :
>
>> But at any rate, this cannot easily be fixed since Guile uses libraries
>> for encoding/decoding that cannot deal reproducibly with improper byte
>> patterns.
>
> Guile's mistake was to move to Unicode strings in the operating system
> interface.
Ema
David Kastrup :
> But at any rate, this cannot easily be fixed since Guile uses libraries
> for encoding/decoding that cannot deal reproducibly with improper byte
> patterns.
Guile's mistake was to move to Unicode strings in the operating system
interface.
> The problem here is that Guile cannot
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
[...]
> However, in 2.0, the current locale is *not* installed; you have to
> either call ‘setlocale’ explicitly (like in C), or set this environment
> variable (info "(guile) Environment Variables"):
>
> GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE=1
>
> When you do that (and th
Marko Rauhamaa writes:
> David Kastrup :
>
>> Marko Rauhamaa writes:
>>> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès):
Guile assumes its command-line arguments are UTF-8-encoded and
decodes them accordingly.
>>>
>>> I'm afraid that choice (which Python made, as well) was a bad one
>>> because Linux
Hey Dave!
David Kastrup skribis:
> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
[...]
>>> ERROR: In procedure open-file: No such file or directory:
>>> "/home/hermann/Desktop/filename_\u540d\u5b57.scm"
>>
>> In C, argv is just an array of byte sequences, but in Guile,
>> (command-line) returns a lis
David Kastrup :
> Marko Rauhamaa writes:
>> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès):
>>> Guile assumes its command-line arguments are UTF-8-encoded and
>>> decodes them accordingly.
>>
>> I'm afraid that choice (which Python made, as well) was a bad one
>> because Linux doesn't guarantee UTF-8 purity.
>
>
Marko Rauhamaa writes:
> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès):
>
>> In C, argv is just an array of byte sequences, but in Guile,
>> (command-line) returns a list of strings, not a list of bytevectors.
>>
>> Guile decodes its arguments according to the encoding of the current
>> locale. So if you’re in
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès):
> In C, argv is just an array of byte sequences, but in Guile,
> (command-line) returns a list of strings, not a list of bytevectors.
>
> Guile decodes its arguments according to the encoding of the current
> locale. So if you’re in a UTF-8 locale (say, zn_CH.utf8 o
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Hi!
>
> Thomas Morley skribis:
>
>> guile filename_名字.scm
>> ;;; Stat of /home/hermann/Desktop/filename_??.scm failed:
>> ;;; ERROR: In procedure stat: No such file or directory:
>> "/home/hermann/Desktop/filename_\u540d\u5b57.scm"
>> Backtrace:
>> In ice-
Hi,
Rchar skribis:
> Is Guile scheme slows down entire GuixSD (If Guile speeds up, GuixSD also
> speeds up)?
GuixSD is a GNU/Linux distro and even if some components are written in
Guile (such as the Shepherd and some low-level helpers), most of it is
written in C.
Guile’s speed has an influe
Hi!
Thomas Morley skribis:
> guile filename_名字.scm
> ;;; Stat of /home/hermann/Desktop/filename_??.scm failed:
> ;;; ERROR: In procedure stat: No such file or directory:
> "/home/hermann/Desktop/filename_\u540d\u5b57.scm"
> Backtrace:
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> 160: 8 [catch #t # ...]
> In unknow
Hi!
Linas Vepstas skribis:
> I'd like to ask for help/clarification (and maybe even volunteer to
> write the required code) to resolve this extension-loading problem.
>
> I have almost a dozen C++ shared libs that implement guile modules,
> and regularly struggle to get them loaded correctly.
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