[XeTeX] XeTeX and code page 65001

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/2/3 Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
> Trying to help Natércia Fernandes with her query regarding
> Portuguese hyphenation on TeXhax today, I had occasion
> to try the following :
>
>
>        C:\>xetex
>        This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (Web2C 2010)
>         restricted \write18 enabled.
>        **\showhyphens {natércia}
>
>        ! End of file on the terminal... why?
>
Strange. This is from TL 2011 in Linux x86_64:

This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011)
**\showhyphens {natércia}
entering extended mode
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!

Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) detected at line 0
[] \tenrm na-tr-cia

\hbox(6.67859+0.0)x16383.99998, glue set 9798.10976 []


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>
> If I carry this out in Win/XP's normal catcode régime, all proceeds
> normally but the output is corrupt at the point of the accented
> character; if I try the same thing with Lucida Console selected
> as my CMD font and the code page changed to 65001 (Win/XP's number
> for UTF-8) so that I can see the accented "e" in Natércia's name
> correctly, I get instead the above "end of file" message.
>
> Can anyone hazard a guess as to why ?
>
> Philip Taylor
>
>
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