Re: guile-ncurses unicode support

[Trevor Arjeski <tmarjeski@gmail.com>]

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
>