[tex-live] Technical showstopper

[Fabrice Popineau]

> Hmm, I get in the toc file: \contentsline {section}{\numberline
> {1}L'\'edition}{1} and nothing of ^^e9 and it was latex-ed correctly!

Ok, I was right assuming it would be the same under LaTeX and under
ConTeXt/Plain TeX, because inputenc seems to change the way accented
characters are handled.

But try this foo.tex :

% Langue et codage
%-----------------
\useencoding[ffr]
\mainlanguage[fr]
\enableregime[il1]  % idem inputenc=latin1


\starttext
\startbuffer[foo]
Essayons des accents : éàèôîûëïüç
\stopbuffer

\typebuffer[foo]
\stoptext

and do 'texexec --pdf foo'

The fact is that characters that are written to file by TeX are using
the ^^ notation, because they are not affected by the locale anymore.

Fabrice