I was told that this issues gives headaches, so I added a short comment explaining it.
Vivien
>From 93224afab672465f3e8e1a6be00def0d5507bb76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vivien Kraus <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 18:19:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] guile-gi: fix a source code encoding error * gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm (guile-gi) [phases]: remove the default dotted circle from the combining character that is tested in test/string.scm. --- gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm index 3c93779209..1ef872ffe1 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm @@ -3145,6 +3145,16 @@ (define-public guile-gi (ice-9 rdelim)) #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases + (add-after 'unpack 'remove-dotted-circle-from-combining-character + ;; The test/string.scm files contain ◌̀, which is a dotted circle + ;; (U+25cc) followed by an upper combining character (U+0300). The + ;; old guile 3.0.2 reader incorrectly ignores the dotted circle, + ;; and parses it as the combining character alone, but the new + ;; guile reader does not. + ;; See https://github.com/spk121/guile-gi/issues/112 + (lambda* _ + (substitute* "test/string.scm" + (("#\\\\◌̀") "#\\x0300")))) (add-after 'unpack 'patch-references-to-extension (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys) (let ((effective (read-line -- 2.33.1
