[gambit-list] Some UTF-8 support issues.
vasil
vasil.s.d at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 01:38:10 EDT 2009
Hi!
> I'm not sure what should be the right behavior. Currently, a latin-1
> encoding will be used for the filenames. There is very little code to
> change in the runtime system to use UTF-8 encoding for the filenames,
> but this means that filesystems using plain character (latin-1)
> encoding for filenames will stop working. I could add a configure
> option, such as --enable-path-encoding=UTF-8 . But that begs the
> question: what's the right default? Is the default OS dependent?
>
> Marc
I think additional parameter for encoding in functions like
open-directory will be enough for the first time. Something like that:
(open-directory char-encoding: utf-8 "abcdefабвгд") or make it like
path-or-settings.
Or make global parameter (pathname-encoding).
And do not bother with locales for now.
Vasil
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