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

Greetings!

The fix to GCL's regexp/info processing is now incorporated into cvs
branch Version_2_6_7pre, soon to become 2.6.7.  Please test asap if
you can.

Take care,

"Vadim V. Zhytnikov"  writes:

> Robert Dodier writes:
> > About deffn and defvr,  Vadim> This is not a big problem for
> > translations.
> >  Vadim> One can translate body of the documentation
> >  Vadim> but keep  in English.
> > Well, it seems like a relatively minor change to cl-info.lisp
> > would make it possible to change  as well.
> > Although I do not know how to tie the Lisp code to the locale.
> >
> 
> As far as I understand Maxima and GCL info doesn't bound
> to particular words in  - it just expects that first
> character of  is [a-zA-Z].  So it should work well
> for any Latin-alphabet language but not for Russian, Greek
> etc.
> 
> We can derive locale information from LANG environment
> variable and if specific locale is present info
> should try to use localized *.info files (if present) and
> replace [a-zA-Z] by other pattern.
> 
> I'm also a bit surprised that info doesn't work with
> Russian on sbcl and clisp - on Lisps with unicode
> support but works more or less OK  on gcl and cmucl.
> 
> 
> -- 
>       Vadim V. Zhytnikov
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