Maxima i18n



Hi!

I've committed into Maxima  CVS fixes for
all known i18n problems.  Now Maxima should
work OK with es and pt documentation
in ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 locales (Unicode
enabled Lisp is required for UTF-8 ones).

> 2. At present .info files in .utf8 directories
> get recoder into UTF-8 only on make install stage.
> This must be changed -- we want UTF-8 infos
> on make stage.

Fixed.

> 3. All .html is still in ISO-8859-1.  Must
> be fixed.

All .html docs are left in iso-8859-1.
But we can recode it to utf-8 if
it is really needed.

> 4. There are some problem with portability
> of current Makefile.am reported by Robert.

Fixed.  Old code worked only with automake 1.9.
Now it works with all version from 1.6 to 1.9.

> 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?

iconv is used to convert charsets by default.
recode is tried if iconv is absent and new option
    --enable-recode
forces recode.

Windows builds are available at
ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/people/vvz/Maxima

Please test and report problems
on all platforms.

Best wishes,

Vadim

-- 
      Vadim V. Zhytnikov

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      <vvzhy at netorn.ru>