Maxima 5.9.3 release schedule



Mario Rodriguez writes:

Hi Mario!

>> As a real fix we have to add two more configure options
>>
>> --enable-lang-pt-utf8
>> --enable-lang-es-utf8
>>
>> and and create two corresponding language packs.
>> I'll do this soon.
> 
> Do you think this is necessary? I mean, I could commit again the texi
> files in ISO-8859-1 encoding instead of UTF-8.

The problem is not with source *.texi files.  All *.texi in ISO-8859-1 
and UTF-8 are identical (except for a few characters, what are these?).
This is property of all Latin-1 aka ISO-8859-1 languages (almost all
European languages).  This is how UTF-8 is designed - text files in
ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 should coincide.  Try converting with iconv and see 
for yourself.

> Wouln't that solve the
> problem? 

No.  Unlike source *.texi files resulting *.info files in
ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 differ.  Notice that newly created /info/es.utf8
directory doesn't contain a copy of all *.texi files from /info/es
-- just one header file maxima.texi modified to grab all other
*.texi files from ../es instead of current directory.
The only inconvenience is that
/info/es/maxima.info
and
/info/es.utf8/maxima.info
should be maintained separately.

> In fact, in the es/maxima.texi file there is a line with the
> following contents:
> 
> @documentencoding ISO-8859-1

To be honest I don't know what is the result of this
declaration.

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