German translation of the Maxima reference manual



Wie geht's Dieter?


> But at first, I have some problems to understand the correct way to get
> a correct support for the special chars of the German language.
> 
> I have written the chapters with German special chars, e.g. I have used
> ? and not @'a. Then I have tried to do the appropriate settings to

For umlauts, @''a should work, and for es-zet, @ss{}.

For example: gr@"o at ss{}er

With these codes, you shouldn't need to take care of system
representation of characters, and the same texi files can be processed
both in windows and linux.



> support the charset UTF-8 in the related files. It works well in my
> sandbox, but I think the implementation is not correct and will cause
> problems with a Windows system.
> 
> Perhaps someone with more experience can give me some hints to support
> more correct the German language. I would appreciate any help on this
> topic.
> 
> Dieter Kaiser
> 
> 
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Mario