[tex-live] bug in dvipdfmx wrt diacritics?

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/9/9 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
> Hi everyone
>
> downstream at Debian we got a bug report concerning missing diacritics.
> I confirmed that it is also a problem with an up2date TL2011 installation,
> so it is nothing specific to TL2009 which we ship in Debian:
>
> --------------
> If you compile the latex below to DVI, and then to PDF using dvipdfmx,
> dvipdfmx produces the following error and the resulting PDF contains
> no diacritics.
>
With xdvipdfmx in TL 2010 as well as 2011 I get the same error and the
resulting PDF file is unreadable. I know that seac is used to create
composite accented characters and the syntax very restricted. Maybe
some font experts can help (Karel Piska?)

The font works fine in pdflatex.

> ** WARNING ** Obsolete four arguments of "endchar" will be used for
> Type 1 "seac" operator.
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{charter}
> \begin{document}
> chass\'e du G\"obe
> \end{document}
>
> If you replace charter by lmodern, it works, so the bug may be in the
> font itself (Bitstream charter from
> texlive-fonts-recommended, version: 2009-11)
> ---------------------------------------
>
> When using dvipdfmx from TL2011 I get:
> [1]
> ** WARNING ** Obsolete four arguments of "endchar" will be used for Type 1 "seac" operator.
> ** WARNING ** Obsolete four arguments of "endchar" will be used for Type 1 "seac" operator.
>
> 2517 bytes written
>
> ** WARNING ** 1 memory objects still allocated
>
>
> Anyone having any idea?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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