When I use celestia 1.6.2 64bits, mounted with lua v5.2 (lua.dll), the start of celestia stops on an error due to an instruction lua which does not exist in lua 5.2
What is new 5.2 compared to 5.1? Is it really important ?

onetwothree wrote:The problem is that Celestia internally uses UTF-8 while on Windows other encodings may be used. So some translated strings should be converted from utf-8 to local encodings.
gironde wrote:here is the modified fr.po and fr.mo files :
gironde wrote:What is new 5.2 compared to 5.1? Is it really important ?
onetwothree wrote:
Actually we use lua 5.3 in this build, basically because previous versions are not supported any more. From user's point of view, 5.3 handles numbers in more strict way and it has reserved word "goto". I will try to rebuild the next beta with LuaJIT which implements Lua 5.1.
onetwothree wrote:
I will restore 5.1. But anyway I suggest start updating your scripts for 5.2 & 5.3 compatibility.
onetwothree wrote:
Windows builds are available at Bintray and Github. The same installation file for both 64 and 32 bit versions.
Known issues
* "Disable display scaling on high DPI setting" must be set in windows with high DPI desktops
* Lua 5.2 made "goto" a reserved word, scripts with "observer:goto()" will be aborted
* No NAIF kernels support (SPICE)
SevenSpheres wrote:
I get the same error as gironde when using Lua plugins, but for me Celestia does start (without Lua plugins).
I use Lua Edu Tools, not Lua Universal Tools. Can someone update both of these to Lua 5.2/5.3?
gironde wrote:for table.getn (your_table) which should be replaced by #your_table:
selden wrote:I'll be testing it under Windows 7 and maybe Windows 10.
I will add that installation version 1.6.2 on Windows XP is impossible. Yes, this OS is outdated, but according to some reports, the number of users is still comparable with all Linux distributions taken together. New versions of Celestia should not be deprived of it support, if only because a huge number of add-ons were created precisely in XP. I support the concept of “introducing new without deleting old”.selden wrote:Calling this version 1.6.2 seems inappropriate to me since it has significant incompatibilities with v1.6.1. In particular, updating to a newer version of Lua seems to have broken many, perhaps most, of my Addons, both for scripted orbits and some simple celx scripts.
Lxixboss wrote:Can someone tell me when and where I will be able to download it so we can continue our trek.