foreign language patch for build-index+cl-ppcre branch
Subject: foreign language patch for build-index+cl-ppcre branch
From: Dieter Kaiser
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:02:05 +0100
Am Sonntag, den 20.02.2011, 10:23 -0700 schrieb Robert Dodier:
> I've attached a patch for the build-index+cl-ppcre branch in Git.
>
> >From what I can tell, characters in languages other than
> English aren't displayed correctly by ? and ??;
> the problem is that the code reads bytes instead of
> characters from the .info files.
> This patch fixes that problem, I hope. Also there are some
> related changes to the build machinery (makefiles).
>
> I'm working on Xubuntu (Hardy).
> I tested these changes like this:
>
> ./configure --enable-clisp --enable-sbcl --enable-lang-es-utf8
> --enable-lang-pt-utf8
> make
>
> LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8 konsole
>
> or
>
> LC_ALL=pt_PT.UTF-8 konsole
>
> and in the konsole thus opened
>
> sh maxima-local -l clisp
>
> or
>
> sh maxima-local -l sbcl
>
> and tried various ? and ?? queries.
I have not followed the discussion in detail. Therefore, I do not know
an easy way, to check the improvements. But because, I am working on the
German translation, which becomes more and more complete, I am
interested in a working command describe.
Sorry, that I cannot to be more helpful.
Dieter Kaiser