[plt-scheme] Changing current locale's encoding

At Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:59:26 +0400, Артамонов Николай wrote:
> I have trouble with changing current locale's encoding.

The locale story on Windows has never been clear to me. I see that
Vista includes a lot of new support that appears to unify Unix-style
locales with Windows code pages, so maybe this will be easier to get
right in the future.

In any case, MzScheme's `locale-string-encoding' currently always
produces "UTF-8" under Windows, which certainly isn't right.

For now, I think that MzScheme should simply assume that anything after
"." in a locale name is an encoding name. So, if you change the locale
to "Russian_Russia.866", then `locale-string-encoding' should return
"866", and conversions like `bytes->string/locale' should work through
iconv with the encoding "866". (I see that iconv recognizes both "866"
and "cp866".)

Is it as simple as that? Done in SVN.

Matthew