I have been doing some experiments with the guile interpreter guile --version guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.5-deb+1-3
and it seems to understand the wide characters, using the unicode e176 character with the string "hello" attached I get this: scheme@(guile-user)> (string-append " " "hello") $1 = " \ue176hello" scheme@(guile-user)> (display " ") scheme@(guile-user)> (display (string-append " " "hello")) helloscheme@(guile-user)> I notice that I do not have LC_ALL set in my environment. >From inside Denemo scm_c_eval_string() is being used to evaluate a string that includes this wide character and that is throwing the exception. Richard On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 14:50 +0200, Panicz Maciej Godek wrote: > 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) > >
