[tex-live] TL2004: Technical problems and testing
Thomas Esser
te at dbs.uni-hannover.de
Wed May 12 20:21:06 CEST 2004
> Unless I'm very much mistaken, loading cp8bit.tcx would not affect
> visible characters on the console in the prevous version either. So
> I don't think the new version is a regression.
Hm... You are right. Testing with teTeX-2.0.2:
$ LC_CTYPE=C tex --trans=cp8bit '\scrollmode\ä\bye'
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
(/t/2.0.2/tetex-texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
! Undefined control sequence.
<*> \scrollmode\^^e4
\bye
(see the transcript file for additional information)
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.
$ cat texput.log
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=tex 2004.1.10) 12 MAY 2004 20:17
(/t/2.0.2/tetex-texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
**\scrollmode\^^e4\bye
No pages of output.
$ LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 tex --trans=cp8bit '\scrollmode\ä\bye'
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
(/t/2.0.2/tetex-texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
! Undefined control sequence.
<*> \scrollmode\ä
\bye
(see the transcript file for additional information)
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.
$ cat texput.log
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=tex 2004.1.10) 12 MAY 2004 20:18
(/t/2.0.2/tetex-texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
**\scrollmode\ä\bye
No pages of output.
David? Why does the current version work (does it?)?
Thomas
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