[tex-k] \write writes out TeX's `^^' quartets instead of 8-bit chars

[Thomas Esser]

> If it exists, you can add '-translate-file=cp8bit' to the command line
> and should get the desired behaviour back (it will tell TeX to

Hm... Olaf, either I am doing something wrong or you refer to a different
version of web2c. We are talking about teTeX-2.0.2 which contains Web2C
7.4.5. In my test (see below) a character which is unprintable in the
locale won't come out 1:1 even if I use cp8bit:

    $ echo $LC_CTYPE 
    de_DE.ISO-8859-1

    $ /t/2.0.2/i/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/tex --translate-file=cp8bit
    This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
     (/t/2.0.2/tetex-texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
    **\öäü
    ! Undefined control sequence.
    <*> \ö
          äü
    ? 
    ! Emergency stop.
    <*> \ö
          äü
    No pages of output.
    Transcript written on texput.log.

    $ LC_CTYPE=C /t/2.0.2/i/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/tex --translate-file=cp8bit
    This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
     (/t/2.0.2/tetex-texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
    **\öäü
    ! Undefined control sequence.
    <*> \^^f6
             ^^e4^^fc

Thomas