Re: Text collation

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> I would worry that r6rs may address these things too, leaving
> guile-specifics as, well, a dead-end.  Though I can see this stuff is
> of use now.

Don't worry, R5.91RS doesn't deal with locales and text collation [0],
and if it did, we'd just have to provide a wrapper for our API.
MzScheme has had a similar API for some time also [1].

> Myself I've been using a couple of bits from from localeconv and
> nl_langinfo.  Some way to get at that would be a good addition (though
> hopefully in a cleaner way than the C level).

I've written a wrapper for `nl_langinfo ()' as part of the `i18n' module
(it is necessary to internationalize SRFI-19 for instance).  This also
required the implementation of `scm_from_string ()', a generalized
version of `scm_from_locale_string ()' that uses `iconv ()'.

I'll write about this later and try to address the other issues you
raised at the same time.

Thanks,
Ludovic.

[0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2006-09/msg00052.html
[1] http://download.plt-scheme.org/chronology/mzmr200alpha14.html