I don't get any response from 'describe' with clisp, both building with
./configure --enable-clisp --enable-lang-es
and
./configure --enable-clisp
in my Ubuntu-Linux. For example,
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Maxima 5.9.2.19cvs http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp CLISP ()
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) ? solve
Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
invalid byte sequence #xF3 #x6E #x20 #x54 in CHARSET:UTF-8 conversion
Automatically continuing.
To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
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Ubuntu uses UTF-8 encoding by default; I don't know if this fact is
related to this error.
On the other hand, building Maxima with cmucl:
./configure --enable-cmucl --enable-lang-es
I see rectangles instead accented vowels.
Thank you both, Robert and Vadim, for working on this.
Best wishes.
P.D.
If someone else is interested, I came to the idea of writing in
maxima-init.mac the function
sos():=system("mozilla /usr/local/share/maxima/5.9.2.19cvs/doc/html/es/maxima.html")$
and call the Spanish help html system by writing 'sos()$'. It looks very
nice.
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Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
www.biomates.net