foreign language patch for build-index+cl-ppcre branch
Subject: foreign language patch for build-index+cl-ppcre branch
From: Leo Butler
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:15:34 +0000 (GMT)
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Robert Dodier wrote:
< 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.
Robert, what if you use the info files in de.utf8?
Leo
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