On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 5:08 AM Ludovic Courtès wrote:
I think we should deprecate ‘strftime’ and ‘strptime’: (srfi srfi-19)
> provides similar functionality, it uses (ice-9 i18n) for the locale
> stuff, and it has a better API.
>
Just a heads-up. I don't consider SRFI 19 to have a very good API
Hi Mark,
Mark H Weaver skribis:
>> Mark H Weaver skribis:
>>
>>> Here's a patch that might fix the problem, but I don't have time to test
>>> it right now.
>>
>> It works! :-) I wrote tests and pushed it as
>> ab2fd70ef1e36c6532128b73082809ef3c056556.
>
> On my system, I found that my proposed
Hi,
Mark H Weaver skribis:
> John Cowan writes:
>
>> That's a mug's game: I've been there and tried it (not in Scheme). I
>> recommend writing a strftime in Scheme from scratch. It's not that
>> hard; the most annoying thing is getting into the locale files to
>> handle the locale-sensitive di
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 7:06 PM Mark H Weaver wrote:
Is there a portable way to find the relevant locale files and interpret
> them, on both POSIX and Windows systems? If so, can you point out the
> relevant documentation?
>
Portable in the sense that the information can be obtained on both Pos
Hi John,
John Cowan writes:
> That's a mug's game: I've been there and tried it (not in Scheme). I
> recommend writing a strftime in Scheme from scratch. It's not that
> hard; the most annoying thing is getting into the locale files to
> handle the locale-sensitive directives (month name, weekd
That's a mug's game: I've been there and tried it (not in Scheme). I
recommend writing a strftime in Scheme from scratch. It's not that hard;
the most annoying thing is getting into the locale files to handle the
locale-sensitive directives (month name, weekday name, AM/PM, and the
ordering of dat
reopen 35920
thanks
Hi Ludovic,
> Mark H Weaver skribis:
>
>> Here's a patch that might fix the problem, but I don't have time to test
>> it right now.
>
> It works! :-) I wrote tests and pushed it as
> ab2fd70ef1e36c6532128b73082809ef3c056556.
On my system, I found that my proposed patch caus
Hi Mark,
Mark H Weaver skribis:
> Here's a patch that might fix the problem, but I don't have time to test
> it right now.
It works! :-) I wrote tests and pushed it as
ab2fd70ef1e36c6532128b73082809ef3c056556.
I forgot to change the commit author to you before pushing, apologies!
Thanks,
Lud
Thanks! I'm glad to know this. I have adequate fluency in guile now but
very basic C hence some bugs are very opaque to me.
On Mon., 27 May 2019, 04:43 Mark H Weaver, wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
>
> Christopher Lam writes:
>
> > Addendum - wish to confirm if guile bug (guile-2.2 on Windows):
> > -
Here's a patch that might fix the problem, but I don't have time to test
it right now.
Mark
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diff --git a/libguile/stime.c b/libguile/stime.c
index b681d7ee3..9a21b61fe 100644
--- a/libguile/stime.c
+++ b/libguile/stime.c
@@
There might also be related problems with 'strptime'. These problems
date back to when Guile was first extended to support non-ASCII strings.
Here's the relevant commit in 2009 that added non-ASCII support to
'strftime' and 'strptime', but did so imperfectly:
587a33556fdef90025c1b7d4d172af649c8ebb
Hi Christopher,
Christopher Lam writes:
> Addendum - wish to confirm if guile bug (guile-2.2 on Windows):
> - set locale to non-Anglo so that (setlocale LC_ALL) returns
> "French_France.1252"
> - call (strftime "%B" 400) - that's 4x10^6 -- this should return
> "février 1970"
>
> but the foll
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