Re: ice-9 i18n string-locale-upcase

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 18/01/2022 à 18:01, Simon Albrecht a écrit :
> Hi everyone,
>
> I wanted to set up some customisable headings using #(string-upcase 
> "string"), but it doesn’t work on German umlauts, so I came upon 
> string-locale-upcase on this page:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-2.2/guile-ref/Character-Case-Mapping.html#Character-Case-Mapping 
>
>
> However, I can’t get it to work. To this example file:
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> \version "2.23.5"
> #(use-modules (ice-9 i18n))
> \markup \column {
>   #(string-upcase "üß")
>   #(string-locale-upcase "üß" "de_DE")
> }
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> Guile says: “no code for module (ice-9 i18n)”.
>
> Why? Can I load the module another way? Will it do what I want? Should 
> I use another tool? ;-)


Because this is documentation for Guile 2
and current releases of LilyPond still have
Guile 1.8. Try Jonas' latest *experimental*
binaries using Guile 2:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2021-12/msg00007.html
or rather 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2021-12/msg00078.html
if you are using Windows.

Best,
Jean