Re: The “binary-friendly” Latin-1

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:

>> From:Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
>
>> Hello!
>> 
>> >>   1. The notion of a “binary-friendly” ISO-8859-1 encoding?  It’s
>> >>     actually mostly gone with the iconv change, since every textual
>> >>     access goes through iconv.  For binary accesses, the right API is
>> >>     (rnrs io ports) or similar.
>> >
>> > An equivalent question is if you care about backward compatibility of
>> > legacy ports.  Legacy ports returned strings and were once the only option.
>> 
>> You mean if there’s legacy code using a port of unspecified encoding to
>> read binary data, right?
>> 
>> The iconv change doesn’t break it on GNU/Linux:
>
> Cool.  Have you considered what you would want to do with 
> the 'recv!' procedure?

Hmm no.  Ideas?

Perhaps the second argument could be changed to be a string, in which
case it would issue a deprecation warning, or a bytevector.  But when
it’s a string, it’s bound to break unless the program explicitly chooses
a Latin-1 encoding.

Thanks,
Ludo’.