On Jun 28, 2011, at 4:17 AM, Peter Brett wrote: > 1) We need to support gnetlist backends when gEDA is compiled against > Guile 1.8.x, which doesn't understand UTF-8. BTW, if you want to use > non-ASCII characters in your attributes, I highly recommend to use > Guile 2.x.
Actually, UTF-8 attributes (names and values) work fine with Guile 1.8-based gEDA. The clever design of UTF-8 makes code intended for ASCII "just work" so long as it doesn't need to pick wide characters out of a string. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user