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Re: [PATCH] Fix broken handling of non-ASCII strings
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Mark H Weaver |
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Re: [PATCH] Fix broken handling of non-ASCII strings |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:21:22 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
David Pirotte <address@hidden> writes:
> I kind of remember, at some point in the discussion related to this
> mater and you 'welcome as a guile-gnome' developer/maintainer that you
> would apply these important patches to the main tree.
Thanks for the reminder. Unfortunately my patch breaks compatibility
with Guile 1.8, which does not provide a function to convert strings to
UTF-8. We'll need to add an autoconf check for scm_to_utf8_stringn, and
add a compatibility shim if it's not available.
There's nothing very difficult here, but a few issues have conspired to
cause procrastination on my part:
* I've never hacked autoconf, so I'll need to educate myself.
* I've never worked with Guile 1.8, and testing the new patch will
require me to build gnome-guile against Guile 1.8, to make sure it
doesn't break anything.
* I'm uncomfortable with guile-gnome's weird "modules as branches"
repository structure, especially given that this patch changes
multiple modules. I must have confidence in my understanding of how
this works before pushing the changes.
Mark