Re: [Chicken-users] UTF-8 support in eggs

2014-07-07 Thread Yaroslav Tsarko
Hi, On 08.07.2014 00:58, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: To properly handle UTF-8, we have the utf8 egg. If I understand correctly, the only way for eggs to properly support UTF-8 is by using the utf8 egg (or an equivalent implementation). Best wishes. Mario Why don`t just add *(use utf8)* lin

Re: [Chicken-users] UTF-8 support in eggs

2014-07-07 Thread Alex Shinn
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:59 PM, John Cowan wrote: > > > The same approaches also apply to eggs needing the full > > numeric tower, though with UTF-8 there's less chance of > > breakage when mixing eggs which do and don't use the utf8 egg. > > I would say that UTF-8 has *more* chance of causing u

Re: [Chicken-users] UTF-8 support in eggs

2014-07-07 Thread John Cowan
Alex Shinn scripsit: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Mario Domenech Goulart > wrote: > > It might help the discussion if we had a list of eggs which > are known to break on UTF-8 inputs. Indeed. > > 1. Have and -utf8 variants. Or, more generally, and > >- variants. That would turn ou

Re: [Chicken-users] UTF-8 support in eggs

2014-07-07 Thread Alex Shinn
Hi, On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Mario Domenech Goulart < mario.goul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use some eggs and I need them to handle UTF-8. By "handle > UTF-8" I mean "treat strings as UTF-8", so that > >(string (string-ref "ç" 0)) => "ç" > > for example. > > CHICKEN's st

[Chicken-users] UTF-8 support in eggs

2014-07-07 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi, I want to use some eggs and I need them to handle UTF-8. By "handle UTF-8" I mean "treat strings as UTF-8", so that (string (string-ref "ç" 0)) => "ç" for example. CHICKEN's string-related procedures "accept" UTF-8 strings, but it doesn't mean they will correctly handle them. To proper

[Chicken-users] ANN: Security bugfix release for lz4 egg available

2014-07-07 Thread Christian Kellermann
Dear Chicken users, if any of you uses the lz4 egg in your application, it's time to do an upgrade to the 0.2 version I have just released. This includes the upstream version r119, which fixes the latest security issues as you are being able to watch the whole internet drama around it. There is n