Sagetex is working!!! (and also Maxima).

I did the following:

I found that LANG=ex_MX.UTF-8 but .bashrc had
export LC_ALL=C. So I commented and run
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

After that Maxima start to works.

Thanks for the support.

----Alex

On Mar 6, 8:54 am, Robert Dodier <robert.dod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> William Stein wrote:
> > > On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 at 10:45PM -0800, Alex Lara wrote:
> > >> *** - invalid byte #xC3 in CHARSET:ASCII conversion
>
> Try this: change the environment variable LC_CTYPE
> e.g. LC_CTYPE=ES_es or LC_CTYPE=ES_es.UTF-8 or something
> like that. Or maybe somehow indicated ISO 8859-1 or Latin-1 or
> something. Then Clisp might know how to decode the offending bytes.
>
> Another tactic: put the following in your $HOME/.clisprc file.
>
>   (format t "HELLO FROM CLISPRC~%")
>   (ignore-errors
>     (progn (setf custom:*default-file-encoding*
>                          (ext:make-encoding :input-error-action #\?))
>                    (setf custom:*terminal-encoding*
>                          custom:*default-file-encoding*)))
>
> That replaces undecodable bytes by '?' characters.
> (The "hello" message is just to verify the code is loaded ....)
>
> > That's a good guess.  There is a known major bug in Maxima + clisp where
> > it totally fails to work if there are certain non-ascii characters in the
> > filenames in the current directory or PATH.  I can't wait until clisp isn't
> > in Sage.
>
> The bad news is that it's not exactly a Clisp idiosyncrasy.
> Clisp is trying to "do the right thing" when faced with undecodable
> bytes.
> Unfortunately the Common Lisp spec, while it recognizes the
> existence of character encoding issues, doesn't specify what to do
> when a byte can't be decoded to a character. Other Lisp
> implementations
> probably have their own ways to handle it.
>
> FWIW
>
> Robert Dodier
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