Re: \delta in overfull \hboxes screws up xterm

Paul Vojta writes:

> Folks:
> When you have $\delta$ in the text produced by an overfull \hbox, it
> leaves xterm in some funny mode in which most of the characters are
> graphics things of some sort.

> This is with teTeX-beta-2.96.4.20040627 (TeX, Version 3.141592
> (Web2C 7.5.3)).

> Here's a sample plain tex file:

> 	\showhyphens{$\delta$}
> 	\bye

> My environment contains (among other things):

> 	LANG=C
> 	LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1

It's the -8bit setting that's biting you.  The output contains an
unescaped ^N because of that, which xterm will interpret as SO (Shift
Out - use alternate character set).  ^O should shift back to the
normal character set.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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