#31 internationalization problem

[Anonymous]

Hello!

For clisp-2.25 (installed without problems with
gcc-2.95.3):

$ clisp -q -norc

[1]> (machine-instance)
"sylla [137.129.xxx.xxx]"
[2]> (machine-version)
"SUN4US"
[3]> (quit)
$ clisp -q -norc

[1]> (/ 0)

*** - division by zero
1. Break [2]> (quit)
$ clisp -q -norc -L francais

[1]> (/ 0)

*** - Message inimprimable
1. Break [2]> (quit)
$ clisp -q -norc -L deutsch

[1]> (/ 0)

*** - Division durch Null
1. Break [2]> (quit)
$ clisp -q -norc -L spanish

[1]> (/ 0)

*** - invalid byte #xF3 in CHARSET:UTF-8 conversion,
not a Unicode-16
1. Break [2]> (quit)
$

The problem seems to be triggered by messages
containing accented letters.
Any hint ?

Regards.

--

Bernard Urban

[Sam Steingold]

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I also observe this on a solaris xterm.
Bruno, could you please look at this?
Thanks!

[Bruno Haible]

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For using german, french or spanish, you need to be in a
locale
that supports ISO-8859-1 characters, i.e. whose encoding is
either ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8. Example:

$ LANG=es_ES clisp -q -norc -L spanish
[1]> (/ 0)

*** - divisin entre cero

[Sam Steingold]

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1) make distclean in the CLISP directory.
2) cd libiconv
./configure --disable-shared
make
make install
make distclean
3) set the environment variables
CPPFLAGS=-I/..../include so that it will find <iconv.h>
LDFLAGS=-L/..../lib so that it will find libiconv.a
and export them
Here "...." is the path where the previous
make install
installed the files iconv.h and libiconv.a
4) back to CLISP main directory
./configure
and continue as usual

also:
Look at the value of *terminal-encoding*.
Is it CHARSET:ASCII? Under "fr" or "de" it should be
CHARSET:ISO-8859-1 or CHARSET:UTF-8.