error trying to build de documentation




On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Dieter Kaiser wrote:

< Am Sonntag, den 05.12.2010, 12:07 +0000 schrieb Leo Butler:
< > < A question: What I have to do to get the German translation as help from
< > < the command line?
< >  
< >  You need to set *maxima-lang-subdir*, which is defined in init-cl.lisp.
< >  The function set-locale-subdir in init-cl.lisp attempts to set this,
< >  but obviously you can do this manually. I guess something like
< > 
< >  (setq *maxima-lang-subdir* "de")
< >  (set-pathnames)
< > 
< >  in maxima-init.lisp ought to work.
< > 
< >  (It works for me, but there is an error in the generated
< >  maxima-index.lisp).
< 
< Hello Leo,
< 
< thank you for the hint. It works for me. I do not get an error and I can
< read the German translation on the command line on my Linux system. What
< is the error you get?

Hi Dieter, glad it helped. I get a reader error, presumably because I
don't have the correct locale (en_gb only).

< 
< But there is another problem. The html file and the pdf file show the
< correct German umlauts, but not the info file. Perhaps I have to provide
< an UTF coding for the text in addition?

I added 

@documentencoding utf-8

at the top of include-maxima.texi and the rebuilt info document displays
the umlauts correctly.

Leo
 

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