Hi, Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The setlocale call would be a good way. Maybe the charset tables > could be reinitialized in scm_setlocale (when setting LC_ALL or > LC_CTYPE). I suppose that'd be moderately helpful, and would make > char-alphabetic? etc match how 1.6 worked. In fact, I'm afraid we have a problem, because the `is' functions from <ctype.h> are fully locale-dependent. Thus, they don't only depend on the charset being used but also on the language settings, which makes them unsuitable for the implementation of `char-set:letter' (because it should contain _all_ the letters representable with the current charset, not only those of some particular language). > But I guess really the > notion of what a character represents beyond ascii isn't specified > yet. I'm not an expert in that domain, but the SRFI seemed to imply that the notion of a letter is pretty well defined in Unicode (which is fortunate because all the people using the various scripts do know what a letter is in their script ;-)). Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel
