Re: [Gretl-users] New build of gretl for OS X

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Henrique wrote: > I'd installed the gretltest.dmg following all the instructions > (delete ~/.gretl2rc, download and install GTK+, download and > install gretltest.dmg). But gretl doesn't start with double > click on the icon. To use gretl I need open a terminal and type > ./gretl. Thanks, that should now be fixed with http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretltest.dmg > ACCENTED FILE NAMES > Accented sessions and scripts file names still don´t work. Non-ASCII filenames are, in my opinion, absolutely the work of Satan. If every computer platform on the planet used UTF-8 for encoding such filenames we might be OK but as it is, it's the Tower of Babel all over again. And OS X seems to be a particularly inconsistent mess (MS Windows we know will be consistently non-standard). For test purposes I created a file named (I'll use TeX notation here because one can't trust email in this respect either) "Portugu\hat{e}s.gdt" -- that is, the base name is the correct Portuguese spelling of "Portuguese". Here's how it is represented in various application on the iMac: Finder: correct (I entered the name using the Finder) xterm: Portugue\`{I}?s.gdt native Mac Terminal program: Portugue??s.gdt GTK file selector, as called by gretl: Portugu\hat{}es.gdt Although the file name looks wrong in GTK (the "hat" or caret is to the left of the 'e', not over it), the file nonetheless opens OK. > I'd tested on my Macintosh (running OS X Leopard) and the > languages that are working fine are Automatic (that gives me > gretl on my language - Brazilian Portuguese), English, German, > Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese, Russian. > Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese (Taiwan) didn't work. Thanks. I can now see how to get zh_TW to work on OS X (namely, by setting "LANG=zh_TW LANGUAGE=zh_TW" rather than "LANG=zh_TW LANGUAGE=chinese", as I expected), but I still don't see what the magic incantation is to get pt_BR working. Allin. _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users