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read-only setlocale has side effect

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From: Zefram <zefram <at> fysh.org>
To: bug-guile <at> gnu.org
Subject: read-only setlocale has side effect
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 16:48:59 +0000

A call to setlocale with no second argument is documented to be
a read-only operation, querying the current locale configuration.
In fact it has a side effect of setting the encoding on primordial ports:

$ guile-2.0 -c '(write (port-encoding (current-input-port))) (newline) (setlocale LC_TIME) (write (port-encoding (current-input-port))) (newline)'
#f
"ANSI_X3.4-1968"

Observe that this occurs even if the locale reading operation is for a
category unrelated to character encoding.  The actual decoding behaviour
of read-char is altered in accordance with the reported encoding.
Non-primordial ports opened before or after the setlocale call are
not affected.

-zefram

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