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


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