Re: FOSDEM 2016 slides

Hi Arne, Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Hi Alex, > >> And my slides from the FOSDEM devroom (for my Guile Config >> presentation), for anyone interested (copying in Guile User as it isn't >> Guix related…): >> >> http://alex.pompo.co/presentations/fosdem-16-conf.html > > These are great — and I

Re: My Wisp slides for FOSDEM

On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Jan Wedekind writes: Ok, I got it working in the REPL. Just had to copy "language/wisp/spec.scm" and "wisp-scheme.scm" to the directory /usr/share/guile/2.0/language/wisp and then type ",language wisp" in the Guile REPL :) Nice! Please

Re: FOSDEM 2016 slides

Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > Arne Babenhauserheide writes: [...] >> I tend to write quick commandline tools which sometimes begin to grow >> wild. Elegant commandline parsing is still one of the things with >> which I had problems in Guile, and I hope that

FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

Hi there! I just came back from FOSDEM where we had an awesome Guile devroom with nice people and great talks! https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/gnu_guile/ Some of the slides are already on-line, and hopefully videos will follow, assuming everything went well with recordings (which is

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

Hi Nala, Nala Ginrut writes: > On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 10:04 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we >> were all excited to see so many people stop by the devroom. Many shared >> the impression that we were at an important moment of

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 11:41 +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: > Hi Nala, > > Nala Ginrut writes: > > > On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 10:04 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we > >> were all excited to see so many people stop by the

Re: UTF8 string storage and retrieval in XML

On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 10:43 -0500, Thompson, David wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Richard Shann > wrote: > > I should have said: > > guile --version > > Guile 1.8.8 > > I don't think that you will find much help for this version of Guile > here. Guile 1.8.8

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 10:04 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we > were all excited to see so many people stop by the devroom. Many shared > the impression that we were at an important moment of Guile’s history. > The transition

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

Hello, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi there! > > I just came back from FOSDEM where we had an awesome Guile devroom with > nice people and great talks! I really want to echo Ludo's sentiments. I had a great time in our dev room and it was really nice to put faces to the names I see popping up in

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

On 01/02/16 19:04, Ludovic Courtès wrote: The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we were all excited to see so many people stop by the devroom. Many shared the impression that we were at an important moment of Guile’s history. A good start to 2016, the year that

Re: UTF8 string storage and retrieval in XML

I should have said: guile --version Guile 1.8.8 Richard On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 15:05 +, Richard Shann wrote: > Can anyone explain what is going on when you try to store strings with > non-ASCII characters? Here is an example: > > guile> (define another-data "Čć") > guile>

Re: UTF8 string storage and retrieval in XML

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Richard Shann wrote: > I should have said: > guile --version > Guile 1.8.8 I don't think that you will find much help for this version of Guile here. Guile 1.8.8 is over 5 years old and the 1.8.x series is no longer maintained. Please

UTF8 string storage and retrieval in XML

Can anyone explain what is going on when you try to store strings with non-ASCII characters? Here is an example: guile> (define another-data "Čć") guile> another-data "�\x8c�\x87" guile> (display another-data) Čćguile> I would expect evaluating another-data to give "Čć" not

Re: FOSDEM 2016 slides

Hi Alex, > And my slides from the FOSDEM devroom (for my Guile Config > presentation), for anyone interested (copying in Guile User as it isn't > Guix related…): > > http://alex.pompo.co/presentations/fosdem-16-conf.html These are great — and I hope I can use guile-config. I tend to write quick

Re: UTF8 string storage and retrieval in XML

Richard Shann writes: > Can anyone explain what is going on when you try to store strings with > non-ASCII characters? Here is an example: > > guile> (define another-data "Čć") > guile> another-data > "�\x8c�\x87" > guile> (display another-data) > Čćguile> I

Re: UTF8 string storage and retrieval in XML

On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 13:16 -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Richard Shann writes: > > > Can anyone explain what is going on when you try to store strings with > > non-ASCII characters? Here is an example: > > > > guile> (define another-data "Čć") > > guile>