[tex-live] TL2004: Technical problems and testing

Fabrice Popineau Fabrice.Popineau at supelec.fr
Wed May 12 16:40:46 CEST 2004


> David Kastrup has written on the tetex-pretest list:
>     Uh oh.  As I said, preview-latex works by analyzing error messages.
>     Those need to be in 8bit.  There are several Unix implementations with
>     broken locales, and the Windows implementations tend to don't have
>     anything even faintly resembling locales, too (typical for fpTeX).

Sorry? I agree that MS doesn't implement the full set of LC_* stuff, but you
surely can change the coding use to display text on the console.

I'll have a look at preview-latex with the new tex engine.

Fabrice




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