Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings

[Neil Jerram]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> I committed the patch into HEAD, along with the following doc bits
> (under ``Standard Character Sets''):
>
>   Currently, the contents of these character sets are recomputed upon a
>   successful @code{setlocale} call (@pxref{Locales}) in order to reflect
>   the characters available in the current locale's codeset.  For
>   instance, @code{char-set:letter} contains 52 characters under an ASCII
>   locale (e.g., the default @code{C} locale) and 117 characters under an
>   ISO-8859-1 (``Latin-1'') locale.
>
> I'll eventually merge it into the 1.8 branch if nobody disagrees.

As long as you're happy that 1.8-targeting programs can't reasonably
be relying on some detail that has now changed, that sounds fine.

Regards,
     Neil