Hi Christopher, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm struggling with string-ports on Windows. > > Last para of > https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/String-Ports.html > "With string ports, the port-encoding is treated differently than other > types of ports. When string ports are created, they do not inherit a > character encoding from the current locale. They are given a default locale > that allows them to handle all valid string characters." > > This causes a string-sanitize function to not run correctly in Windows. > (locale-encoding) says "CP1252" no matter what LANG or setlocale I try. > > The use case is to sanitize string for html, but on Windows it munges > extended-unicode. Can you explain more fully what the problem is? I know a fair amount about Unicode, but my knowledge of Windows is extremely weak. What exactly is "extended-unicode" in this context? References welcome. Thanks, Mark
