Re: Problem with wide characters on upgrading to guile 2.x

[Richard Shann]

Thank you for your reply. I didn't try altering anything in the program,
because this problem has arisen when changing from guile-1.8 to
guile-2.0 and so I am hoping it is an understood problem.
FWIW I see that the following code is executed at Denemo program startup

  setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
  bindtextdomain(GETTEXT_PACKAGE, get_system_locale_dir ());
  bind_textdomain_codeset(GETTEXT_PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
  textdomain(GETTEXT_PACKAGE);

so it would seem that LC_ALL is being specifically unset. The code works
both under GNU/Linux and Windows using guile-1.8.
Putting 

setlocale (LC_ALL, "C.UTF-8") 

in the above initialization sequence does not affect the behavior.

Richard

On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 14:50 +0200, Panicz Maciej Godek wrote:
> 2013/8/22 Richard Shann <address@hidden>
>         GNU/Denemo has a number of guile scripts in which wide
>         characters are
>         embedded in strings. These used to work in guile 1.8 but with
>         guile 2.0
>         I am seeing the following error message trying to use a string
>         with "
>         "
>         in it (if that string will get through the email software)
>         
>         (format #t "~%=> ~A~%""  ")
>         ; the throw arguments are
>         
>         (scm_to_stringn cannot convert wide string to output locale 84
>         #f #f)
>         
>         what is "locale 84" and how can I return to the desired
>         behavior?
>         
> 
> 
> I don't know much about the internal details, but did you try
> to set the locale of the environment to e.g. C.UTF-8 like that
> 
> 
>  $ LC_ALL="C.UTF-8" guile # or your particular script
> 
> 
> (the list of possible values can be obtained by typing "locale -a"
> on modern unix systems)
> 
>