Re: guile-ncurses unicode support

[Trevor Arjeski]

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 <spk121@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Monday, June 3, 2024 at 06:08:03 PM PDT, Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org> wrote:

>Hi!

>tmarjeski@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