Hi!
I've just committed a path which makes Maxima
describe/? command locale aware. Now in Spanish
and Portuguese locales it works perfectly well
with mixed Spanish/English and Portuguese/English
info files. It works to me on Linux with
GCL, CMUCL and SBCL and with GCL on Windows.
New Windows test builds are available.
So far so good but here comes bad news.
With this modification describe is broken on
Clisp. And it is broken even with English
info. I'm quite puzzled since modification
to cl-info.lisp is small and essentially
very simple -- several English search patterns
are replaced by localized versions. In English
locale it should work as before. At present
I don't have an idea why this machinery works
as expected on GCL, CMUCL and SBCL and
fails on Clisp. If somebody get interested
you can compare cl-info.lisp in current
Maxima CVS and CVS/2006/01/01 for which
clisp describe still works (don't forget
to build maxima.info with LANG=C otherwise
describe may produce an error - but this
is completely different problem).
Working on the problem.
Best wishes,
Vadim
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov
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