[texhax] [details of \csname] 8-bit catcodes

[Uwe Lück]

Am Dienstag, den 26.02.2013, 16:31 +0100 schrieb Uwe Lück: 
> > > Am Montag, den 25.02.2013, 21:46 +0100 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
> > >> $ tex -ini \\relax
> > >> This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2012) (INITEX)
> > >>
> > >> *\showthe\catcode 222
> > >> > 12.
> > >> <*> \showthe\catcode 222
> > >
> I have dared to try Reinhard's 
> 
>     <cmd> \\showthe\\catcode222
> 
> for <cmd> from etex -ini, latex, pdflatex, ... indeed always got 12.

The Web2C documentation mentions an option -8bit rendering
8bit-characters printable.  I wonder on which TeX distributions 
I experienced that option -8bit was used.  I may remember correctly 
that they were not printable some years ago, while in the meantime 
somebody may have used -8bit for creating the memory dumps.

!?

Cheers,

    Uwe.