The parse-info branch seems to be working pretty well. (I would still
like to test it on a sparc machine, though.) I will defer to people
who can know other languages on whether it really works or not.
One thing I have noticed, however, is that if set LANG=de_DE (or any
other non-English language) and do "? mnewton", then end of the output
is
There are some inexact matches for `mnewton'.
Try `?? mnewton' to see them.
Wouldn't it be nice if that were also in German? Same goes for the
startup banner:
Maxima branch_5_30_base_166_g2e02213 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
using Lisp CMU Common Lisp snapshot-2013-04-19-g3b87aa9-dirty (20D Unicode)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
I think maxima has all of the gettext stuff in place to do the
appropriate translation. We just need people to create the
appropriate pot files so that the intl package can get the
translations and display them.
If there's interest, I can help with setting it up. I can't do the
translations myself, of course. Or maybe we can get Google Translate
to do the initial translation and let native speakers fix it up.
Ray