Maxima i18n



Harald Geyer writes:
>> 3. All .html is still in ISO-8859-1.  Must
>> be fixed.
> 
> I don't think so. There are *lots* of websites using latin1
> or latin9 encoding. Every sane www-browser should be able
> to handle that. No matter what's the local locale.

Actually I worried about xmaxima built-in browser
which is not so advanced.  Bit it is OK -- I've checked.
So agreed.  All .html will be in latin1 (iso-8859-1).


>> 5. Very serious portability problem.
>> Which program to use for ISO->UTF conversion?
>> For Linux the natural choice is iconv -- this
>> program is part of glibc and must be
>> present on all modern Linux distros.
>> But what about other UNIX?  I don't know.
>> Recode?  Any other ideas?
> 
> If in doubt, I would add an option to the configure script,
> to do that. (And wait for patches from people who actually 
> use some other system...)
> 

I'll make

1. iconv default
2. recode if iconv is absent
3. and option which forces recode.

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