[tex-live] characters > 127 in .dtx and .sty files
Elie Roux
elie.roux at telecom-bretagne.eu
Tue Dec 22 15:20:20 CET 2009
Hello,
I'm testing etextools with LuaTeX in TeX Live and I got a strange problem:
The .dtx provided on the CTAN for etextools has characters in it that
are >127, like §, ¤, € and £. When I try 'tex etextools.dtx', the
produced .sty files does not have these characters anymore but their ^^
representation, for example § is ^^a7. In TeX Live, the .sty file is
different and has the characters directly in it.
It would be harmless if LuaTeX and XeTeX were able to read the .sty file
with the characters in it, but they can't (as the byte is an invalid
UTF-8 sequence), and thus they fail on compiling a document with
etextools. Is it possible to change the behaviour of the compilation of
the .sty file from the .dtx in order to get the ^^ representation of
characters >127 (which is the default)? At least for packages with this
kind of characters in them.
Thank you,
--
Elie
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