Re: [OctDev] UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1

2010-04-21 Thread David Bateman
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", "-binar

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-21 Thread David Bateman
Søren Hauberg wrote: > Hi All > > Carnë just mentioned that SourceForge blocks users from certain > countries. They do this to comply with US export regulations. As a > project administrator I can disable this blocking. This, however, > requires that I agree to the following text: > > This

Re: [OctDev] Export control

2010-04-21 Thread Carnë Draug
I'm not 100% sure (I'm still waiting for an answer from the sourceforge engineering team), but I think people from such countries would still be blocked from filling bug reports, commenting, making commits or request features since it seems they can't legally register in sourceforge. Carnë --

Re: [OctDev] Syntax highlight with gtksourceview testers/feedback welcomed

2010-04-21 Thread Søren Hauberg
ons, 21 04 2010 kl. 16:57 -0400, skrev Carnë Draug: > On 18/04/2010, Søren Hauberg wrote: > > Ok. Unless we see any bugs / issues with the current version in the next > > week or so, I would recommend that you upload the latest version of > > octave.lang to the gnome bug tracker. I think the code

Re: [OctDev] Change of options in zenity_file_selection

2010-04-21 Thread Carnë Draug
On 11/04/2010, Søren Hauberg wrote: > Honestly, I have no idea. No one have written guidelines. In practice, I > think this issue happens very rarely, so I guess nobody bothered > figuring out how to deal with this. I realise this is not a particularly > satisfying answer, but it is the best I got

Re: [OctDev] Syntax highlight with gtksourceview testers/feedback welcomed

2010-04-21 Thread Carnë Draug
On 18/04/2010, Søren Hauberg wrote: > Ok. Unless we see any bugs / issues with the current version in the next > week or so, I would recommend that you upload the latest version of > octave.lang to the gnome bug tracker. I think the code freeze is over, > so they can start to push things again. I

[OctDev] Bug: Octave Code for IRR

2010-04-21 Thread Ulrich Hoermann
  Dear Colleagues, I use the IRR code from the financial package, but it does not work. The bug seems to be related to the way, the irr.m calls the fsolve function. The error message is as follows: error: error creating function handle "@npv (x, ...)"error: called from:error: C:\...\fsolve.m at lin

Re: [OctDev] Parallel computing with octave

2010-04-21 Thread Olaf Till
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 03:33:10PM +0200, Basilio Vescio wrote: > Has anyone ever succeded in using package "parallel" in a multicomputer > environment? > Every time I try to start octave with argument ".../server.m", it > crashes with segmentation fault. > I did trials on several machines runnin