foreign language patch for build-index+cl-ppcre branch

On 2/20/11, Dieter Kaiser <drdieterkaiser at web.de> wrote:

> 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.

Hi Dieter, the branch in question has a reimplementation of
build_index.pl (Perl) as a Lisp program which uses CL-PPCRE
(regular expressions). Also I think it is possible to hook in
additional .info files (e.g. for share packages).

Anyway I find that in a German locale e.g. LC_ALL=de_DE
Maxima reads doc/info/de/maxima.info as expected.
However, I had to build maxima-index.lisp in that same
locale -- when it was built in my default locale (en_US.UTF-8)
some characters were displayed incorrectly.
I guess that is a problem; it seems that the current locale
should be ignored when building the .info indices.

I didn't notice that problem after building the Spanish and
Portuguese indices. Perhaps that's because I used UTF-8
locales for those and my default is also a UTF-8 locale.
Just a guess.

Thanks a lot for working on the German translation,
and all your work on Maxima.

best

Robert Dodier