2013/8/22 Richard Shann <richard.sh...@virgin.net> > 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)
