Hi Kurt,
I tried your suggestion, no difference. My locale is set to
"en_US.UTF-8", as I posted earlier.
In any case, FreeBSD is fully "internationalized", has been so for a
while. See
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html
I don't know what the issue is, but it seems like a difference between
1.3.5 and 1.3.6.
Kostas
On 10/24/20 1:50 PM, Kurt Pagani wrote:
FreeBSD migt be tricky regarding to UTF-8. Apparently "alpha" appears as
U+00B1 (PLUS-MINUS SIGN) in FriCAS. There must be some mismatch. Perhaps
setting LC_COLLATE=C will help?
"""
FreeBSD, like many UNIX-based operating systems, is unfortunately not configured
to use UTF-8 by default. This sometimes causes confusion about whether Unicode
is supported on FreeBSD. Fortunately, it is easy to enable UTF-8 on FreeBSD.
"""
Consult:
https://www.b1c1l1.com/blog/2011/05/09/using-utf-8-unicode-on-freebsd/
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FriCAS Computer Algebra System
Version: FriCAS 1.3.5
Timestamp: Mi, 17. Apr 2019 03:15:11
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Issue )copyright to view copyright notices.
Issue )summary for a summary of useful system commands.
Issue )quit to leave FriCAS and return to shell.
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Function declaration sixel : TexFormat -> Void has been added to
workspace.
Type: Void
Function declaration quickLoad : String -> Void has been added to
workspace.
Type: Void
Type: Variable(alpha)
(1) -> α
(1) α
On 24.10.2020 01:48, Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
Yes, Greek works fine with many other applications, e.g. emacs. Or shell
windows. Or LibreOffice, Thunderbird, etc.
I am not running Linux, but FreeBSD (you can see what FriCAS reports when it
starts.)
On 10/23/20 7:08 PM, Bill Page wrote:
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 6:20 PM Kostas Oikonomou
<[email protected]> wrote:
...
How do you actually type the 'α'? I switch my keyboard to Greek layout.
I just cut-and-paste from the email. I also use a desktop app called
"Character Map" which is more general but more awkward.
Can I assume that you successfully use Greek with other applications?
E.g. In the system text editor?
Maybe the actual version of Linux that you are using is relevant?
Sorry that I can't be much more help.
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