GNU bug report logs - #39970
guix commands broken on Azerbaijani 'az_AZ' and Turkish 'tr_TR' locales

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: "pelzflorian \(Florian Pelz\)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 39970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39970: guix commands broken on Azerbaijani 'az_AZ' and
 Turkish 'tr_TR' locales
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 17:05:26 +0100

Hi Florian,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 06:02:40PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> To me it’s not a bug in Guile, but simply the fact that regexps, as
>> implemented by the C library, are locale-dependent.
>> 
>
> (use-modules (ice-9 regex))
> (regexp-exec (make-regexp "^([a-z]+)$")
>              "iyiyim")
> ⇒ #f
>
> Guile’s behavior that i is not among [a-z] has been confirmed as
> unexpected by a natively Turkish friend of mine.  It is different from
> the behavior of current glibc:
>
> florian <at> florianmacbook ~$ cat iyiyim.c
> #include <regex.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #define STR "iyiyım"
> int main (int    argc,
>           char** argv)
> {

You’re seeing a different behavior because you forgot a:

  setlocale (LC_ALL, "");

call here.

>> The patch you proposed looks good to me, though perhaps we could
>> explicitly list all the alphabet in the regexp?
>> 
>> A better option is to reimplement ‘store-path-package-name’ in a way
>> similar to ‘store-path-hash-part’, as in commit
>> 35eb77b09d957019b2437e7681bd88013d67d3cd.
>
> I suppose it would be better to cache the compiled regexp.  What is
> this mcached syntax inside (guix store)?  Or do I use Scheme’s 'delay'
> and 'force' for caching?

I lean towards avoiding regexps altogether, as I wrote above.

WDYT?

> The attached patch fixes the regexp.  Shall I push the attached patch
> and then try making it cache the compiled regexp or do you still
> prefer an implementation without regexps?  Why would not using a
> regexp be better?

It reduces reliance on libc, reduces complexity, and performs better as
noted in the commit log of 35eb77b09d957019b2437e7681bd88013d67d3cd.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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