[tex-live] Unattended TL install
Norbert Preining
preining at logic.at
Sat Aug 25 10:24:21 CEST 2012
Hi all,
> First, it's not clear to me why the
> use utf8;
> no utf8;
> idiom is in trans.pl in the first place.
I think because we read in UTF8 data, the po files, but have to write them out to the terminal in local encoding, otherwise the user see's gibberish output.
I think this is the reason ... afair when I wrote that piece. I surely didn't come up by chance with that.
Norbert
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