Fix Guile li_std_string testcase which requires a UTF-8 locale set

This was failing on Mac OSX and is a further fix to
43c8f2351c to fix #139
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William S Fulton 2014-03-14 14:18:42 +00:00
parent bf8eb05dbb
commit 3d230ea253
1 changed files with 25 additions and 2 deletions

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;; current module. That's enough for such a simple test.
(dynamic-call "scm_init_li_std_string_module" (dynamic-link "./libli_std_string"))
; Note: when working with non-ascii strings in guile 2
; locale must be set explicitly
; Guile doesn't handle non-ascii characters in the default C locale
; The locale must be set explicitly
; The setlocale call below takes care of that
(setlocale LC_ALL "en_US.utf8")
; The locale needs to be a UTF-8 locale to handle the non-ASCII characters
; But they are named differently on different systems so we try a few until one works
(define (try-set-locale name)
; (display "testing ")
; (display name)
; (display "\n")
(catch #t
(lambda ()
(setlocale LC_ALL name)
#t
)
(lambda (key . parameters)
#f
))
)
(if (not (try-set-locale "C.UTF-8")) ; Linux
(if (not (try-set-locale "en_US.utf8")) ; Linux
(if (not (try-set-locale "en_US.UTF-8")) ; Mac OSX
(error "Failed to set any UTF-8 locale")
)))
(load "../schemerunme/li_std_string.scm")