Hi again, I got if to work. The problem was, as you said, with my locales. I had to turn it back to iso-8859-1.
Running dpkg-reconfigure locales and selecting both, iso and utf8 and the adding to my .bashrc the following lines: LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 export LC_CTYPE Thanks. On Mar 20, 1:29 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Francisco Cordobés <ghi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, I have compiled Sage from source(version 3.4) and although the > > process is long it goes without any error. The problem is when trying > > to do things in the notebook. I cannot even to plot(sin,1,2) because > > maxima is not able to start. I also tried maxima alone and got the > > following error: > > > $sage-3.4/local/bin$ ./maxima > > > *** - invalid byte sequence #xCD #x53 inCHARSET:UTF-8conversion > > Break 1 [4]> > > > Any hint on what is going wrong? > > You have a file -- maybe in the same directory where you start Sage -- > that has a non-ascii character in it. Rename that file and the probem > will go away. There's also some language environment variable that > will fix this, which I vaguely recall being mentioned on one of the > sage-devel or sage-support mailing lists in the last few weeks. > > William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
