Bug#617355: [wxmaxima] hangs on UTF8 characters like µ

[Maximilian Gaukler]

Package: wxmaxima
Version: 0.8.5-2
Severity: normal

Wxmaxima hangs infinitely long for expressions with special characters, e.g. "µ".
If it does not support non-ASCII characters, please at least implement a warning message so that a normal user can figure out what is wrong with his expression.

When testing this, please note that that ² and ³ are silently converted to ^2 and ^3, so these characters are not affected.

When I enter "µ;" directly into maxima, it prints "[?]"  (a hexagonal shaped character with ? inside, probably meaning illegal UTF8 character), but at least it does not hang for a long time. (This error is another bug, I will report it soon.)

Thanks

Max Gaukler

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64

Debian Release: 6.0
   500 stable          security.debian.org
   500 stable          ftp.uni-erlangen.de
   500 squeeze-updates ftp.uni-erlangen.de

--- Package information. ---
Depends                (Version) | Installed
================================-+-==============
libc6                 (>= 2.2.5) | 2.11.2-10
libgcc1             (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.4.5-8
libstdc++6            (>= 4.1.1) | 4.4.5-8
libwxbase2.8-0     (>= 2.8.10.1) | 2.8.10.1-3+b1
libwxgtk2.8-0      (>= 2.8.10.1) | 2.8.10.1-3+b1
maxima                 (>= 5.18) | 5.21.1-2squeeze
maxima-doc           (>= 5.10.0) | 5.21.1-2squeeze


Recommends                (Version) | Installed
===================================-+-===========
ttf-jsmath                          | 0.090709+0-1
libgnomeprintui2.2-0                | 2.18.5-1


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