On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 01:32 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > (Did I ever mention this backtrace tree > > pic? http://www.lonelycactus.com/uploaded_images/test[1]-765536.PNG > > It shows that for all the scripts the test suite, all of the calls to > > low-level read and write pass through those two functions.) > > Nice. I suppose you had breakpoints in GDB, captured the output of > "bt", frobbed it and fed it to `dot'? > Pretty much.
> > I have changed my opinion on one issue. I don't believe that Guile > > ports should have a specific encoding: they should just use the > > locale. This is just pragmatism. Guile ports and the default reader > > are annoying things to hack. I am loathe to touch them more than is > > necessary. > > > > The R6RS ports have the nice transcoder idea. It might be more fun to > > push port-specific encodings to that library. > > Are you saying that we'd have an implementation of the R6 port API that > DTRT, whereas Guile's current API would remain encoding-oblivious? > I am thinking that the setlocale character encoding becomes the encoding for all legacy Guile port IO, and if you want to operate on a port that has a different locale than your setlocale character encoding, you need to do that through an R6RS port. > Thanks! > > Ludo'. -Mike
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