[tex-live] Problems with non-7bit characters in filename
Robin Fairbairns
Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Fri Jul 4 10:42:45 CEST 2014
Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
> > While latin1 can include every possible character, UTF-8 cannot.
>
> This is definitely wrong. The opposite is true.
no, it's correct: iso 8859-1 has no "forbidden" octets (it does, iirc,
have some unassigned ones)
whereas
utf-8 rejects some octets in some contexts, since it's generating a
32-bit glyph from 8-bit input. (it's complicated. honest.)
robin
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