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bug#22902: GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE not equivalent to setlocale


From: Andy Wingo
Subject: bug#22902: GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE not equivalent to setlocale
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 18:16:46 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

On Fri 04 Mar 2016 04:34, Zefram <address@hidden> writes:

> The documentation claims that setting GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE=1 in the
> environment is equivalent to calling (setlocale LC_ALL "") at startup.
> Actually there is at least one difference: calling setlocale causes ports
> (both primordial and later-opened) to be initially configured for the
> locale's nominal character encoding, but setting the environment variable
> does not.  Setting the environment variable leaves the port encoding at
> #f, functioning as ISO-8859-1, just as if locale had not been invoked
> at all.  I do see some effects from setting the environment variable,
> specifically message strings affecting strftime.

Indeed!  Thank you for this analysis; I was wondering why I was getting
terrible backtraces in Guile master.

Andy





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