On Mon 11 Jan 2010 14:38, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Mike Gran <spk...@yahoo.com> writes: > >> But as far as the greater question of the side effects of setting locale >> early on startup... The parsing of any source code files after locale >> is set will be done in that context. I don't think it would do anything >> unexpected. The reader and the port routines tend to do their own parsing, >> and don't tend to rely on libc locale-specific routines. Even so, it >> would take some auditing to prove that there would be no effect. > > Source files should have the right ‘coding:’ meta anyway. I just > changed the compiler to install the current user locale [0], as that’s > typically what a standalone program does.
If we're taking this tack, perhaps we should setlocale in the `guile' binary (but not by default when used by a library). Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
