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

[Hans Hagen]

Karl Berry wrote:

>            \showhyphens{$\delta$}
>
>How about if we make the default (in fmtutil.cnf) be what it was for
>2003: only codes 32 and higher are printable on terminal by default
>("7.5-bit" :).  Do any *languages* need codes <32 printable?  I don't
>think so.
>  
>
eh .. only terminal then, not files! i really need those <32 chars in files; i'm less worried about a screwed up terminal (tex messages are messy anyway) then an unusable system because files behave strange

(dangerous to mention 'for 2003' because that was also dealing with files) 

(i wonder why tex cannot behave like other systems, i never have to worry about such issues when using perl or ruby) 

Hans 

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