[tex-live] cp8bit and old bugs

[Fabrice Popineau]

Staszek>  I'm so sorry, but the last ad hoc changes to tex and co cannot
Staszek>  work as expected. Seems the bug was also in web2c 7.4.5 (teTeX
Staszek>  2.0) (perhaps because of that faulty playing with locales
Staszek>  still left?)

1. test with mex (Polish plain which provides also proper
   interpretation of characters): 
%& --translate-file=il2-pl
ąćęłńóśźż ĄĆĘŁŃÓŚŹŻ
\message{ąćęłńóśźż ĄĆĘŁŃÓŚŹŻ}
\bye

This is TeXk, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.2) (format=mex 2003.9.15)  17 SEP 2003 06:16
 %&-line parsing enabled.
 (/usr/TeX/texmf/web2c/il2-pl.tcx)
**00mex.tex
(./00mex.tex
This is MeX  Version 1.05  18 XII 1993  (B. Jackowski & M. Ry\'cko)
ąćęłńóśźż ^^81^^82^^86^^8a^^8bÓ^^91^^99^^9b [1] )
Output written on 00mex.dvi (1 page, 252 bytes).

I don't get that :

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C:\tmp>mex st1
This is TeXk, Version 3.141592 (Web2c 7.5.2)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
 (c:/Program Files/TeXLive/texmf-var/web2c/il2-pl.tcx)
(./st1.tex
This is MeX  Version 1.05  18 XII 1993  (B. Jackowski & M. Ry\'cko)
acelnószz ACELNÓSZZ [1] )
Output written on st1.dvi (1 page, 236 bytes).
Transcript written on st1.log.

And without the il2-pl.tcx:


C:\tmp>mex st1
This is TeXk, Version 3.141592 (Web2c 7.5.2)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
 (c:/Program Files/TeXLive/texmf-var/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
(./st1.tex
This is MeX  Version 1.05  18 XII 1993  (B. Jackowski & M. Ry\'cko)
acelnószz ACELNÓSZZ [1] )
Output written on st1.dvi (1 page, 236 bytes).
Transcript written on st1.log.

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3. now, as the world is latex oriented, and you can feel bored
by such exotic examples as above, please try the attached 
latin1 (iso8859-1) test (iso1-t1.tex) and press 3 times the Enter key.

Then remove the first line and unpercent
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
so the default cp8bit.tcx could now work and you can see what was written
to \jobname.ttc.

Please try also removing texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx for both latex tests.

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I didn't expected such strange results and I'm in despair what
can be done to correct that mess before TL release. Any help? Olaf,
Thomas?


What strange results ? The chars output to terminal are printed
according to your current locale. If I do a "chcp 1252" under Windows,
the result is ok for me. I can see in both the terminal and the ttc file
the same list of chars.

Fabrice