[tex-live] Technical showstoppers for TL2003

[Hans Hagen]

At 20:37 15/09/2003 +0200, you wrote:

>Daniel Flipo wrote on 13 Sep:
> > The problem occurs in LaTeX --- not in .toc files as Fabrice
> > wrongly said --- but when 8bit chars are written to a file
> > (é is written as ^^e9) and input back verbatim.
> > This is ---for instance ---- what the 'example'
> > environment from the lshort files does. I append a short
> > test file.  With TL2003, you get  ^^e9 printed instead of 'é',
> > with TL7 you got 'é' printed as expected.
>
>Again, this is one of the best examples for using il1-t1.tcx

as you rightfully remark later, this only works ok in documents with only 
one encoding, so we still need the 8in-8out

>6. Petr's enctex should be reconsidered carefully by more people;
>    I strongly suggest doing that in more friendly manner, but not
>    at this hot moment, please!

agreed!

Hans
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