[debbugs-tracker] bug#21221: closed (guile-2.2 socket ports used with display does not send utf8 !)

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regarding guile-2.2 socket ports used with display does not send utf8 !
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> guile-2.2 socket ports used with display does not send utf8 !
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> Sat, 8 Aug 2015 21:20:54 -0500
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> The following simple client-server program fails for me.
> For simplicity, for the server, just use netcat listening on port 7777:
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> $ nc -l 7777
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> 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)
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> The SmålandSmåland gets corrupted:  nc receives Sm?landSm?land
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> Some types of utf8 do go through, so e.g. (display "Ćićolina\n" sss)
> seems to work fine.  This finish/norweign thing, though, fails,
> vietnamese too.
> (display "Hòa Phú Phú Tân Hiệp An  Tương Bình Hiệp Định Hòa\n" sss)
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> I suppose the answer is "don't use display for sending strings on a
> socket", but I'm stumped as to why there should even be an encoding
> error, why its not utf8 end-to-end.
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> This is for guile-2.2 from a recent git pull of the master source from
> about June 2015, but I believe the problem occurs on guile-2.0 as
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> guile --version
> guile (GNU Guile) 2.1.0.305-e7097-dirty
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> this is on ubuntu 14.04 aka ubuntu trusty
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> -- Linas Vepstas
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> Re: bug#21221: guile-2.2 socket ports used with display does not send utf8 !
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> On Sun 09 Aug 2015 04:20, Linas Vepstas <address@hidden> writes:
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> > The following simple client-server program fails for me.
> > For simplicity, for the server, just use netcat listening on port 7777:
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> > $ nc -l 7777
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> > 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)
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> > The SmålandSmåland gets corrupted:  nc receives Sm?landSm?land
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
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> Andy
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