On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 11:45 -0700, Mike Gran wrote:
> Hi Richard-
>
>
> > scheme@(guile-user)> (string-append " " "hello")
>
> > $1 = " \ue176hello"
> > scheme@(guile-user)> (display " ")
> > scheme@(guile-user)> (display (string-append " "
> > "hello"))
> > helloscheme@(guile-user)>
> > I notice that I do not have LC_ALL set in my environment.
> >
> > From inside Denemo scm_c_eval_string() is being used to evaluate a
> > string that includes this wide character and that is throwing the
> > exception.
>
> I've been gone a while, so I don't know what the latest is.
> But based on old knowledge...
>
> 1. Make sure that you Guile script files are UTF-8. If they
> are not, you'll need to explicitly put a "coding:"
> declaration at the top of each file.
I guess they are (else it would never have worked under 1.8) - typically
they are input to a Gtk widget which I think default to taking utf-8.
>
> 2. In the inner_main of your scm_with_guile call,
> try calling scm_setlocale. Maybe something like this?
> (This shouldn't make a difference, I think.
> But, if it does, it says something interesting.)
>
> scm_setlocale( scm_variable_ref(scm_c_lookup("LC_ALL")),
> scm_from_locale_string("") );
> If that actually works, lemme know.
I just pasted the above into the start of inner_main() and like magic,
it has fixed the problem. Is this call ok for guile-1.8 linking too?
Thanks very much for the magic
Richard
>
> -Mike
>
