On Wed, 2026-05-13 at 09:13 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Tue, 2026-05-12 at 10:37 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > On Sun, 2026-05-10 at 14:44 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > > Better news, 
> > > D. just downloaded and ran the latest version on Windows and it
> > > seems
> > > to be working. 
> > It seems there are still problems reading in wide chars in scheme -
> > this script
> > (let ((tag "Tremolo"))
> > (d-DirectivePut-chord-postfix tag ":32")
> > (d-DirectivePut-chord-display tag "𝅬")
> > (d-SetSaved #f))
> > 
> > when executed on the github windows built Denemo creates a
> > directive
> > with display field showing as
> > 
> > �?��
> > 
> > which causes the display to barf (as well as upsetting the menus at
> > the
> > top!!!)
> > This would perhaps be the guile interpreter not reading in the wide
> > characters correctly.
> So I have a copy of the output on the windows terminal of executing
> (disp "𝅬") in the Scheme window
> that emits 
> ­?༠
> So very likely Guile is not expecting UTF8

Just to check I've created this

(d-WarningDialog (number->string (string-length "𝅬")))

which yields "1" on my build which has guile 3.0.8
but yields "4" on the Windows 10 laptop with the github build which
reports it is built with guile version 2.2.7.

Richard


> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > > He screenshotted the terminal when it hangs about for a
> > > while on startup with a GTK warning message about
> > > (org.denemo.Denemo
> > > .. attached is what he got. The second attachment is what the
> > > terminal
> > > shows after the program has read in the last opened score.
> > > However, it is taking a minute to open Denemo each time, which I
> > > guess
> > > is Guile wasting time deciding it can't compile .scm files. Oh
> > > for
> > > the
> > > good old days of Guile 1.8
> > > Richard
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 2026-05-10 at 11:00 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2026-05-10 at 09:25 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2026-05-07 at 09:39 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > > > > Richard,
> > > > > > Due to the large wait time for the windows version to load,
> > > > > > should
> > > > > > [...]
> > > > > I just downloaded
> > > > > https://github.com/jbenham2015/Denemo/actions/runs/25471582568/artifacts/6845552000
> > > > > and ran it under wine, it didn't take too much time loading, 
> > > > 
> > > > It seems I spoke too soon, I tried re-running Denemo under wine
> > > > and
> > > > it
> > > > hung up the machine completely trying to compile the Scheme
> > > > libraries.
> > > > Why it should have started ok when executed from the
> > > > installation
> > > > wizard I can't imagine...
> > > > 
> > > > Richard
> > > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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