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bug#35920: strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#35920: strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-8 |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Jul 2019 10:58:32 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
> John Cowan <address@hidden> 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, weekday name,
>> AM/PM, and the ordering of dates).
>
> 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?
The (ice-9 i18n) module provides bindings to nl_langinfo et al. The
actual data format is specific to the C library, so I think we cannot
portably go deeper than what (ice-9 i18n) does.
Ludo’.
- bug#35920: strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-8,
Ludovic Courtès <=