[tex-live] datestamp in texcat
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Sun Sep 27 23:18:49 CEST 2009
So what happens to accented characters? Are accents stripped?
Yes. We see no viable alternative. Not everyone's terminal runs UTF-8
(by a long shot), or any other single encoding. Therefore we have to
fall back to 7 bits or output garbage for some people. Such as life.
For pretty descriptions, use the Catalogue on the web.
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html
(I realize that doesn't especially help TLU, though.)
The key function that does the ASCII-ification is the Perl module
Text::Unicode (on CPAN). Manuel found it and made the changes.
karl
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