[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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