On Wed, 2026-05-13 at 12:58 +0000, Mike Gran wrote: > On Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 04:37:52 AM PDT, Richard Shann > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Building Gnu Denemo for Windows has resulted in attempts to read > > files > > with four byte chars failing > > (string-length "𝅬") > > results in 4 not 1 > > Are there options that should be set somewhere in the build or > > initialization that will enable naive Windows 10 users to run the > > program successfully? > > The guile 2.x series only understood 8-bit locales like Latin-1 or > ASCII.
Thank you for your quick response, however: I don't understand how this can be, the build of Denemo in Debian (version) -> 2.2.7 and (number->string (string-length "𝅬")) -> 1 while (on Debian) echo "𝅬" | od -x responds with 0000000 9df0 ac85 000a 0000005 and, indeed, Denemo has been running on Windows without this problem since guile 1.8 days. What am I missing here? Richard Shann > It had no support for UTF-8 on any platform. The guile 3.x series has > better Unicode support, but, getting it to build and run on Windows > can be > tricky. > > Regards, > Mike Gran
