[tex-live] xelatex + files with non-ascii chars

[Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> 
> When I try to compile a "büro.tex" with xelatex I get a quite
> curious error (miktex on win xp) 
> 
> I:\Z-Test>xelatex büro
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (MiKTeX 2.9)
> entering extended mode
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> <*> b^^?^^³
>            ro
> ? x
> No pages of output.
> 
> I get a similar error with miktex 2.8 on a win7 (only the umlaut is
> encoded differently on the terminal). 
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if this a problem of the miktex binary I suspect more a
> problem in the format files. Could please someone try what happens
> in TeXLive?
		

This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (Web2C 2010)
entering extended mode
! Emergency stop.
<*> b^^%
        x
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.

Philip Taylor