more about build-index+cl-ppcre branch & encodings



On 3/2/11 4:29 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> OK, when I launch xterm with
> LC_ALL=foo LANG=foo xterm
> and then run Maxima 5.21.1 in that, describe text
> (titles and content) is displayed correctly in both
> ISO-8859 and UTF-8 locales.
>
> What was Ray's original proposal? I don't remember.
I think Leo is referring to my comment about treating the info files as
streams of octets.  You mentioned earlier that this is how the existing
system works.

Ray