Re: [PATCH] Fix broken handling of non-ASCII strings

David Pirotte <[email protected]> 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