Re: string-ports issue on Windows

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Christopher,

Christopher Lam <address@hidden> 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