[tex-live] Unattended TL install

[Norbert Preining]

Hi all,

> First, it's not clear to me why the
> use utf8;
> no utf8;
> idiom is in trans.pl in the first place.  

I think because we read in UTF8 data, the po files, but have to write them out to the terminal in local encoding, otherwise the user see's gibberish output.

I think this is the reason ... afair when I wrote that piece. I surely didn't come up by chance with that.

Norbert