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["Andrey G. Grozin" <address@hidden>]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Magyarkuti, Gyula wrote:
> Unfortunatelly, setting the variable LANG did not solve my problem. The
> output was:
>
> [gyula@gauss ~]$ export LANG=C
> [gyula@gauss ~]$ maxima
>
> *** - invalid byte #xED in CHARSET:ASCII conversion
> The following restarts are available:
> ABORT          :R1      ABORT
> Break 1 [2]>
Note that the output has changed. The setting of LANG definitely 
influences the result.

> [gyula@gauss ~]$ rpm -qa |grep -i  lisp
> clisp-2.36-7.fc4
> maxima-runtime-clisp-5.9.2-6.fc4
This is a very recent version of clisp with Unicode support. 
Unfortunately, I don't know how this support works.

I see 2 possible courses of action:

1. Non-scientific
Try several possible settings of LANG, e.g., en_US.utf8, en_US.iso88591 
etc.

2. Scientific
Ask the clisp mailing list what the above message means and how to fight 
it.

Or you can set LANG to what you really want (according to your language 
preferences) and recompile maxima from sources with your clisp. After 
that, hopefully, it will work with this setting of LANG.

Sorry for the delay with the answer, I'm currently having hardware 
problems with my laptop.

Andrey