As long as the windows, mac osx and various linux flavours support this correctly, my feeling is change it to use UTF-8.. However, I seem to remember that saving loading UTF-8 files Octave posed some problems, coe you try saving a file a UTF-8 text string with the save options "-ascii", "-binary" and "-v6" and see if t=you can correctly reload it?
Cheers David Javier Enciso wrote: > 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 > > > -- David Bateman dbate...@dbateman.org 35 rue Gambetta +33 1 46 04 02 18 (Home) 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt FRANCE +33 6 72 01 06 33 (Mob) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
