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

Robert Dodier wrote:


> 
> I like the idea of using a Lisp-based system to generate the
> help index, although I'm not convinced that the extra gyrations
> to explicitly track the encoding for an ordinary Maxima
> session are an improvement. (It is necessary to track the
> encoding when generating the indices since the maxima.info
> files have different encodings.)
> 

One may wonder if problems will not be generated by the need of such 
"gyrations" when using non english locales. This is because some systems,
like Linux, are naturally utf-8, while others, like FreeBSD use
ISO8859-1. I suspect there is a potential of confusion here.
I know i have to filter TeX files with iconv when exchanging them
with these sorts of machines. Presumably Windows uses some sort
of codepage and MacOS still other stuff.   
 

-- 
Michel Talon