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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-09-24 21:56:42 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-09-24 22:04:51 +0200
commit08d7e3592faa93f508cd7f0c30199fe53c87892b (patch)
tree9cd4ae44427b5e4466fbad91e530445a07282d85
parent75726135ce017f37ae57181e011ceea95c56dd3a (diff)
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ui: Gracefully handle Unicode description strings.
Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/21536>. Reported by Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>. * guix/ui.scm (texi->plain-text): Wrap body in 'with-fluids'. * tests/ui.scm ("package-description-string vs. Unicode"): New test.
-rw-r--r--guix/ui.scm5
-rw-r--r--tests/ui.scm7
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/ui.scm b/guix/ui.scm
index 4a3630f242..67dd062a34 100644
--- a/guix/ui.scm
+++ b/guix/ui.scm
@@ -803,7 +803,10 @@ converted to a space; sequences of more than one line break are preserved."
(define (texi->plain-text str)
"Return a plain-text representation of texinfo fragment STR."
- (stexi->plain-text (texi-fragment->stexi str)))
+ ;; 'texi-fragment->stexi' uses a string port so make sure it's a
+ ;; Unicode-capable one (see <http://bugs.gnu.org/11197>.)
+ (with-fluids ((%default-port-encoding "UTF-8"))
+ (stexi->plain-text (texi-fragment->stexi str))))
(define (package-description-string package)
"Return a plain-text representation of PACKAGE description field."
diff --git a/tests/ui.scm b/tests/ui.scm
index 25fc709431..bd4c907525 100644
--- a/tests/ui.scm
+++ b/tests/ui.scm
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#:use-module (guix profiles)
#:use-module (guix store)
#:use-module (guix derivations)
+ #:use-module (guix tests)
#:use-module (srfi srfi-1)
#:use-module (srfi srfi-11)
#:use-module (srfi srfi-19)
@@ -89,6 +90,12 @@ interface, and powerful string processing.")
(fill-paragraph "First line.
Second line" 24))
+(test-equal "package-description-string vs. Unicode"
+ "b•ll•t\n\n" ;see <http://bugs.gnu.org/21536>
+ (with-fluids ((%default-port-encoding "ISO-8859-1"))
+ (package-description-string
+ (dummy-package "foo" (description "b•ll•t")))))
+
(test-equal "package-specification->name+version+output"
'(("guile" #f "out")
("guile" "2.0.9" "out")