Re: \delta in overfull \hboxes screws up xterm

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:13:00AM +0200, Harald Koenig wrote:
> 	Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) detected at line 0
> 	[] $\teni ^^N$

teTeX's new fmtutil.cnf file has a -8bit flag. You might, however,
have a copy in your local tree which shadows the new flag.

> but the real question remains:  
> why does your TeX print ascii control characters on your terminal 
> instead of transcribing them to ^^N ??

That setup was required by some people. Some need full 8bit passthough
when writing into files and others even need this for writes to the
terminal.

The locale dependend stuff was removed and now we have the problem to
find the right default behaviour...

Thomas