Re: Static, pure Scheme internationalization

If you're going to run it like any normal Guile program, it's better to use
the "native-endianess" function of Guile to detect the endianness of the
current platform, IIRC it's in (rnrs).

On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 11:15 PM Vivien Kraus <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Le samedi 21 décembre 2024 à 21:36 +0900, Nala Ginrut a écrit :
> > If you want to base on Hoot, maybe it's OK to implement your own
> > (current-endianess) as you showed.
>
> This will not run on Hoot, it only runs at expansion time. However,
> from what I understand from the GNU MO file format specification, it
> can be written either as big-endian or little-endian, I assume
> depending on the machine used to produce the MO file. You can detect
> which one it is by looking at the magic header in the file.
>
> Thank you for the bytevector-u32-ref suggestion!
>
> Vivien
>