[tex-live] fwd: \delta in overfull \hboxes screws up xterm

[Vladimir Volovich]

"DK" == David Kastrup writes:

 DK> Sorry, but when TeX is running inside of a TeX shell (writing
 DK> into a pipe or pseudo terminal) there are valid reasons for
 DK> wanting 8bit throughput.  So while we don't want a _default_
 DK> print-through setting probably, we at least want an option to
 DK> have the terminal output go through.

BTW, is it that hard to automatically translate ^^-notation to 8-bit
notation inside the AUC-TeX?

Best,
v.