Re: Guile integration and UTF-8

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 19:35 +0200, Lars Ljung wrote:
> I downloaded version 3.99.92 to try out the Guile integration.
> 
> 1) It seems like scm_t_subr has been deprecated so guile.c does not
> compile with guile 1.8.8. This was not a problem in 3.99.91.

scm_t_subr is a new feature in Guile 2.0, which I didn't test with.
I've added a workaround so that Guile 1.8 will continue to work, for the
next release.

> 2) This simple example fails because of the UTF-8 string:
> 
> all:
>       @echo $(guile "Hej, världen!")
> 
> The result is:
> 
> ERROR: Unknown object: "Hej, världen!".
> 
> It does work as expected when using a string with only ASCII characters.

Hm.  I've never looked into Guile's i18n support and I have no idea what
this is about.  I'll try to figure it out.

Thanks for testing!