bug#21221: guile-2.2 socket ports used with display does not send utf8 !

[Andy Wingo]

On Sun 09 Aug 2015 04:20, Linas Vepstas <address@hidden> writes:

> The following simple client-server program fails for me.
> For simplicity, for the server, just use netcat listening on port 7777:
>
> $ nc -l 7777
>
> In a guile shell, try this:
> (setlocale LC_ALL "")
> (define sss (socket PF_INET SOCK_STREAM 0))
> (set-port-encoding! sss "utf-8")
> (connect sss AF_INET (inet-pton AF_INET "127.0.0.1") 7777)
> (set-port-encoding! sss "utf-8")
> (display "SmålandSmåland\n" sss)
> (close-port sss)
>
>
> The SmålandSmåland gets corrupted:  nc receives Sm?landSm?land

I have tried this in 2.1.3 and it seems to work for me.  Thanks for the
report, please reopen if you can still reproduce the bug.

Cheers,

Andy