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Linux-Announce Digest #787
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Linux-Announce Digest #787, Volume #4 Mon, 31 May 2004 18:13:02 EDT
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[ADMIN] comp.os.linux.announce report for Mon May 31 00:05:01 CDT 2004 (cola-admin@stump.algebra.com)
GNU CLISP 2.33.1 (2004-05-22) bug fix release (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
Unicode test files for Indian languages (Kalyana Krishnan)
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Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 03:37:05 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: GNU CLISP 2.33.1 (2004-05-22) bug fix release (fwd)
========== Forwarded message ==========
Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.
GNU CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe
University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany.
It mostly supports the Lisp described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard.
It runs on most Unix workstations (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris, Tru64, HP-UX, BeOS, NeXTstep, IRIX, AIX and others) and on
other systems (Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98/ME) and needs only
2 MB of RAM.
It is Free Software and may be distributed under the terms of GNU GPL,
while it is possible to distribute commercial proprietary applications
compiled with GNU CLISP.
The user interface comes in German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch
and Russian.
GNU CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, CLOS,
a foreign language interface, sockets, i18n, fast bignums and more.
An X11 interface is available through CLX, Garnet, CLUE/CLIO.
GNU CLISP runs Maxima, ACL2 and many other Common Lisp packages.
More information at
<http://clisp.cons.org/>,
<http://www.clisp.org/>,
<http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/> and
<http://clisp.sourceforge.net/>.
Sources and selected binaries are available by anonymous ftp from
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/clisp/>
and their mirrors.
2.33.1 (2004-05-22)
===================
User visible changes
====================
* Bug fixes:
+ The return value of ASINH was always rounded to a SINGLE-FLOAT.
+ The return value of NSTRING-UPCASE, NSTRING-DOWNCASE, NSTRING-CAPITALIZE,
WRITE-STRING, WRITE-LINE, when called with a displaced string as argument,
was wrong.
+ Some cases of ,@ inside doubly-nested backquote led to an unjustified
error.
Portability
===========
* Improved portability for Solaris/SPARC64 in 64-bit mode.
* Buildable with GCC-3.4.
* Fixed a bug in (ASH x MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM) on some platforms.
* Fixed a bug in (SIGNUM negative-single-float) on 64-bit platforms.
* Fixed a bug in (LOGAND fixnum bignum), (LOGNAND fixnum bignum),
(LOGANDC2 fixnum bignum), (LOGANDC1 bignum fixnum) on some rare platforms.
--
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Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 05:22:29 CST
From: Kalyana Krishnan <rkk@acharya.iitm.ac.in>
Subject: Unicode test files for Indian languages
Unicode test files for Indian languages.
Systems Development Lab., IIT Madras, India is pleased
to announce a free service for preparing Unicode test files
(UTF-8) which may be used for testing Browsers and other
applications for their ability to handle Unicode.
A web interface is presented for submitting the text. To
allow text input from virtually any Browser, the familiar
ITRANS format is provided.
http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/demos/unicode_testview.html
The submitted text is returned as a UTF-8 html file so that
the rendering of the text by the Browser is immediately seen.
The result page also contains an image of the desired text
besides the Unicode part to permit verification of the rendering
of the text.
The interface could be used to generate text of one's choice
which may include conjunct aksharas and special symbols.
Though input in ITRANS, the text will be returned in one of nine
scripts: Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Devanagari, Bengali, Oriya, Telugu,
Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil.
Current rendering of Unicode text is far from satisfactory under
Linux (Mozilla or Opera) in respect of Devanagari. The demo will
be very useful to identify the problems.
For additional information, contact
rkk@acharya.iitm.ac.in
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