Re: Wide strings

2009-01-29 Thread Neil Jerram
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >>> Do we need to talk more about what needs to be accomplished? Do we >>> need a complete specification? Do we need a vote on if it is a good >>> idea? >> >> I think you're going in the right direction. More importantly, although >> I can't speak for them, N

Re: other unicode things to think about

2009-01-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Andy Wingo writes: > Just a random thought: we'll have to deal with unicode ports, and the > byte-order-mark, and read-char consuming more than a byte. But perhaps > that work can come after Guile actually supports UTF-32 internally. R6RS > is probably a good guide in this regard, cleanly

Fwd: Installing SLIB 3b1 with Guile 1.8.6 (to work with Gnucash 2.8.8) [SOLVED]

2009-01-29 Thread Tom Browder
I recently had a struggle getting slib to work with the latest guile release (1.8.6). I believe para. 6.1.1 of the guile reference manual needs to be rewritten since the procedures don't seem to work as advertised. Following is the wording I suggest based on my experience with guile 1.8.6 and the

guile-lib has moved: http://www.nongnu.org/guile-lib/

2009-01-29 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello all, Guile-Lib has moved to http://www.nongnu.org/guile-lib/, and has switched to git. We hope that this change will make it easier for Guile contributors to get involved with Guile-Lib, and vice versa. Check out guile-lib from git like this: git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/guile-lib.git

other unicode things to think about

2009-01-29 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, Just a random thought: we'll have to deal with unicode ports, and the byte-order-mark, and read-char consuming more than a byte. But perhaps that work can come after Guile actually supports UTF-32 internally. R6RS is probably a good guide in this regard, cleanly distinguishing bytes from chara