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


On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Robert Dodier wrote:

< I;ve updated my sandbox with
< 
< git pull origin
< git checkout origin/build-index+cl-ppcre
< 
< nuked all maxima-index.lisp files, and ran make.
< 
< maxima-index.lisp all look OK.
< 
< In ISO-8859 locales, titles and content look OK.
< 
< In UTF-8 locales, same behavior as before;
< titles look OK, content has garbled characters.
< 
< I am launching a UTF-8 session via
< 
< LC_ALL=foo.UTF-8 LANG=foo.UTF-8 konsole &
< 
< and running maxima in that.
< If someone else is seeing special characters displayed
< correctly in UTF-8 locales -- how are you launching Maxima?
 
 Perhaps I was running the wrong/incomparable test:
 Non utf8: inside an xterm.
 Utf8: inside an emacs shell running in an xterm.
 I do not set the locale, my locale is en_GB.iso88591.
 
---

 Following Doug Crosher's suggestion, I added a flag
 to cut-out the recoding of utf8 info files, and checked
 this in.

 In a cloned repo, after making all the info and index files,
 when I run the script tests/rtest-build-index.sh in tests/ with

 LISPS="cmucl clisp sbcl" VERBOSE=1 bash ./rtest-build-index.sh

 I see the special characters displayed in what appears to be a correct
 fashion for all encodings and all lisps listed on the command line
 in both an xterm and a gnome-terminal.

 Leo

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