describe bug, was: Re: [Maxima] First step toward a 5.9.2 rel ease

>>>>> "Vadim" == Vadim V Zhytnikov  writes:

    Vadim> Fine, so the problem with describe is partially
    Vadim> resolved.  But there is yet another problem.
    Vadim> Describe dislikes national characters.  For example
    Vadim> if I make info in Russian locale @defun/@defvar produces
    Vadim> -- Function/Variable in Russian.  Describe can't work
    Vadim> with such info files.  On clisp and sbcl it just
    Vadim> crashes.  On gcl and cmucl it works but not quite well -
    Vadim> once again it can't locate beginning and end of required
    Vadim> info item.  This is one of reasons why I insist on replacing

That's because describe (cl-info) is pretty stupid.  It searches the
info file for "Function", without looking at the language.  I don't
know how to make it respect the locale.  And cl-info probably isn't
capable of handling anything other than ASCII or Latin-1 at best.

    Vadim> @defun/@defvar by @deffn/@defvr - this resolves the trouble

How does @defun differ from @deffn?

Ray