gnu: Add julia-stringencodings.

* gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm (julia-stringencodings): New variable.

Signed-off-by: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm
index ee1fe8aa93..18f043cd74 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm
@@ -4799,6 +4799,38 @@ are defined for @code{AbstractStrings}, and any iterator that define
 applied to any distance.")
     (license license:expat)))
 
+(define-public julia-stringencodings
+  (package
+    (name "julia-stringencodings")
+    (version "0.3.5")
+    (source
+      (origin
+        (method git-fetch)
+        (uri (git-reference
+               (url "https://github.com/JuliaStrings/StringEncodings.jl")
+               (commit (string-append "v" version))))
+        (file-name (git-file-name name version))
+        (sha256
+         (base32 "1qwc5ll68ng80b5921ww6fvifxbsmiylakfgsbsjbzg7lzyb5i67"))))
+    (build-system julia-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     `(#:phases
+       (modify-phases %standard-phases
+         (add-after 'unpack 'skip-failing-test
+           (lambda _
+             ;; https://github.com/JuliaStrings/StringEncodings.jl/issues/49
+             (substitute* "test/runtests.jl"
+               (("\"SHIFT_JIS\", \"SHIFT_JISX0213\"")
+                " ")))))))
+    (propagated-inputs
+     (list julia-libiconv-jll))
+    (home-page "https://github.com/JuliaStrings/StringEncodings.jl")
+    (synopsis "Support for decoding and encoding texts")
+    (description "This package provides support for decoding and encoding
+texts between multiple character encodings.  It is currently based on the
+@code{iconv} interface, and supports all major platforms using GNU libiconv.")
+    (license license:expat)))
+
 (define-public julia-structarrays
   (package
     (name "julia-structarrays")