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> On Tue, 16 Feb 2016, John Doty wrote:
> > gnetlist doesn’t crash when it sees UTF-8, although back ends generally 
> > seem to substitute “?” for UTF-8 characters in output for some reason, 
> > even though the data passed to the back end is proper. Something about 
> > Guile output, I think.
> 
> Guile tries to convert characters to the encoding of the corresponding 
> output port.  If this isn't set correctly, the characters will appear 
> garbled.  (In particular, when trying to print UTF-8 data to stdout with 
> Guile 2.0.x you have to set the output port encoding explicitly to UTF-8 
> even in an all-UTF-8 locale.  This has been fixed in Guile 2.2.x.)

If it will be fixed then newer version is used there is rather small gain to spend any time on it right now.

> On Tue, 16 Feb 2016, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > more likely we'll get some random joke emoji (like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ for
> > example) as a refdes just because the engineer could[*] :-P
> 
> This wouldn't be rendered correctly because libgedacairo interprets "\_" 
> as an overbar marker.

The overbar marker is indeed very useful.

> The reported PCB crash is actually a combination of two bugs:
> * gnet-pcbfwd.scm shouldn't generate output which PCB can't handle
> * PCB shouldn't segfault even if given malformed commands

Fully agree.

> > Eventually it'll need porting to a new gtk, or you'll be stuck on an old
> > distro.
> 
> Porting gschem to a recent GTK version would mean losing multi-key hotkeys 
> and tear-off menus (as discussed in the past).

Are there any possibilities to get around this?


Nicklas Karlsson