Hi Mike, I actually have a patch for the fix already: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2024-05/msg01728.html Maybe you can just merge that, if you have permissions.
Thanks! Trevor On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 8:24 AM Mike Gran <spk...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > >On Monday, June 3, 2024 at 06:08:03 PM PDT, Frank Terbeck < > f...@bewatermyfriend.org> wrote: > > >Hi! > > >tmarje...@gmail.com wrote: > >[…] > >> I'm having issues running the game this way, and I suspect there is no > >> unicode support enabled on the guile-ncurses package build, even though > >> it says that there is. Everything is working fine on my Arch system > >> using guile and guile-ncurses from their package manager. > >> > >> When I run my game (which uses unicode characters), I only see "?" in > >> place of the unicode. I attempted to `guix build guile-ncurses > >> --no-substitutes` and install from there, but it did not work. > >> > >> Does this sound like an issue with guile-ncurses, or perhaps I am > >> missing something crucial for `guix shell` to work properly? > > > I have just run into this as well, though I am using guix on top of De- > >bian. But that difference should not matter. > > >I believe this is an issue with the guile-ncurses build in guix, that is > >caused by an issue in guile-ncurses' configure.ac, that seems to behave > >in unexpected ways with the "--with-ncursesw" option, that the guix > >build uses. > > Ha! I'm surprised to hear that guile-ncurses has any users at all. > Since I am apparently still the official maintainer of guile-ncurses, > I'll see if I can figure out the accounts and passwords necessary to > apply a fix. > > Regards, > Mike Gran >
