On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Thomas Chust <ch...@web.de> wrote: > 2010/11/3 Hugo Arregui <hugo.arre...@gmail.com>: >> [...] >> 1) Using posix: >> >> (use posix) >> (time->string (string->time "2" "%d")) >> "Tue Jan 2 00:00:00 1900" >> >> but, my current locale es: >> >> (use locale) >> (current-locale) >> "es_AR.utf8" >> [...] > > Hello, > > the POSIX functions use the C standard library's locale which is entirely > independent from that of the locale egg. > > In fact, if you set the C library's locale to anything else than "C", all hell > breaks lose inside CHICKEN: For example the reader will no longer recognize > floating point numbers in the standard Scheme format. If you are lucky numbers > in the C library locale's format will be recognized, but if the locale happens > to change the decimal point to something else than #\. it is very likely that > no > floating point numbers will be recognized at all by the reader. > > If you change the C library's locale at all from inside a Scheme program, I > would advise to keep this change strictly local to the application of > procedures > like time->string and always ensure that the locale is reset to "C" upon exit > from the relevant dynamic scopes. > > Ciao, > Thomas
I'm not quite sure understand the idea. You mean (current-locale) could not be the POSIX locale? _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
