Re: new beta: 2.96.2

Olaf Weber <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Kastrup writes:

> In the case of broken or inconsistent locales, about the only workable
> alternative was to specify --translate-file=cp8bit for every call of
> TeX/LaTeX.

> The way the description of the new behavior sounds, not even this will
> help against systems with broken locale settings now: the TeX error
> messages will refuse to use the encoding of the input files even then.

> Please tell me if I misunderstood anything.

As far as I can tell, using cp8bit.tcx didn't help with broken locales
in the previous version either.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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