Thanks Michael,
> Check your home
> directory for any file with an accent or Umlaut and you likely found
> the culprit you need to rename. 
This fixed the problem.  Good luck with ecls.

Cheers,
Jason



mabshoff wrote:
>
> On Sep 15, 6:34 pm, Jason Bandlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been happily '$ sage -updgrade'ing since sage 2.10 or so, and
>> recently noticed that I couldn't use Maxima (details below).  I'm not
>> sure for how long I've had this problem.   Knowing the disclaimer that
>> applies to upgrading, I downloaded the linux 32-bit binaries for 3.1.1
>> from sagemath.org and still had the same problem.   I'm running Ubuntu
>> Hardy on an AMD laptop.
>>
>> If I try any command that calls Maxima, I have to wait for a timeout,
>> and then get an error.   Specific system information and a traceback are
>> below.
>>
>> Thanks very much for any help,
>> Jason Bandlow
>>
>>     
>
> <SNIP>
>
> Hi Jason,
>
>   
>> *** - invalid byte #xFD in CHARSET:UTF-8 conversion, not a Unicode-16
>>     
>
> this is #2841 and clisp riding on the short bus. Check your home
> directory for any file with an accent or Umlaut and you likely found
> the culprit you need to rename. This has been open on the clisp end
> forever and has never been fixed. That is why we are moving to ecls,
> hopefully in the 3.1.3 release cycle.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
> >
>
>   


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