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




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