Hi David and Søren, I've discovered a compatibility issue with the character encoding used in the help system.
The translation guideline <http://octave.sourceforge.net/translation.html> recommends to use ISO-8859-1-like characters to encode diacritical marks, however, the default character encoding in Lunux is UTF-8 (which I think is more transparent - diacritical marks are typed as they are - and can encode any Unicode character!). Hence the user has to set the character encoding manually in order to view special characters from the help. I wouldn't mind to change the character encoding of the Spanish help to UTF-8. The problem, however, is the octave-forge/admin/octlang file (which is needed to add the MD5 signature to the translation). As soon as I tag (add the signature) a file, it reverts the encoding of the tagged file back to ISO-8859-1. Then my question is, is there a good reason for not using UTF-8 in the help system? Another issue found in Windows, how can I set the code page to a given value (i.e., > dos("chcp 65001"); ) and keep it after Octave restarts? Thanks for your collaboration. Javier ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev