The string failure is due to a dotted circle as a basis for the
combining character, that may have been inserted by a clever source code
editor. Replacing it with the hex value for the character itself, the
test passes.
Vivien
>From 308bd116d75861c70f7540890a514b0eb487c2f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vivien Kraus <viv...@planete-kraus.eu>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 18:19:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] guile-gi: fix a source code encoding error
* gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm (guile-gi) [phases]: remove the default dotted
circle from the combining character that is tested in test/string.scm.
---
gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm
index 3c93779209..6a401cda45 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm
@@ -3145,6 +3145,10 @@ (define-public guile-gi
(ice-9 rdelim))
#:phases
(modify-phases %standard-phases
+ (add-after 'unpack 'workaround-guile-reader-failure
+ (lambda* _
+ (substitute* "test/string.scm"
+ (("#\\\\◌̀") "#\\x0300"))))
(add-after 'unpack 'patch-references-to-extension
(lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
(let ((effective (read-line
--
2.33.1
