[cells-gtk-devel] UTF-8 support

[Peter Hildebrandt]

Bormuth at web.de wrote:
> Hi list, 
> 
> is cells-gtk supposed to handle encoding transparently ?
> 
> On SBCL I tried 
> 
>      (mk-label :text "foo äöüß bar") 
> 
> with some special characters between foo and bar. To my
> disappointment the label fails to display completely.
> 
> Shouldn't cells-gtk validate and eventually convert all
> strings it takes? Or can I somehow tell SBCL to emit 
> strings in UTF8 only ?

Seconded.  Using charcodes instead of the literal characters does not 
help.  Where's the right entry point to get started with this?  Maybe 
something in cffi/gtk-ffi?

Ken, I cc'd you because I feel you have quite a bit of intuition with 
cffi/gtk-ffi issues. Maybe you have an idea where we could get started.

Peter.

> Cheers
> 
> 
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