Re: Using libunistring for string comparisons et al

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Peter,

Peter Brett <address@hidden> writes:

> It would certainly make my life as a downstream application maintainer
> much, much easier if all Guile API functions that accept a C string
> argument expected UTF-8.

Out of curiosity, what kind of C libraries and tools do you use?

My impression is that GLib & co. are well-equipped to deal with UTF-8
whereas other C libraries and programs would rather work with locale
encoding or ‘wchar_t’ using the standard C APIs.

Thanks,
Ludo’.