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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2006-09-20 13:13:34 +0000
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2006-09-20 13:13:34 +0000
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+2006-09-20 Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr>
+
+ * api-data.texi (Standard Character Sets): Documented the
+ charset recomputation upon successful `setlocale'.
+
2006-09-04 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
* api-control.texi (Dynamic Wind): Doc for scm_dynwind_free.
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@@ -2299,6 +2299,17 @@ character sets.
In order to make the use of the character set data type and procedures
useful, several predefined character set variables exist.
+@cindex codeset
+@cindex charset
+@cindex locale
+
+Currently, the contents of these character sets are recomputed upon a
+successful @code{setlocale} call (@pxref{Locales}) in order to reflect
+the characters available in the current locale's codeset. For
+instance, @code{char-set:letter} contains 52 characters under an ASCII
+locale (e.g., the default @code{C} locale) and 117 characters under an
+ISO-8859-1 (``Latin-1'') locale.
+
@defvr {Scheme Variable} char-set:lower-case
@defvrx {C Variable} scm_char_set_lower_case
All lower-case characters.