[tex-hyphen] zerohyph.tex and hyph-utf8

Stephan Hennig mailing_list at arcor.de
Fri Aug 22 23:46:18 CEST 2014


Am 22.08.2014 um 22:18 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
> On 2014-08-21 at 22:14:11 +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
> 
>  >     Is there any file in TeX that is guaranteed to be empty?
>  > 
>  > No.
>  > 
>  > There is /dev/null on Unix; don't know about Windows.
> 
> There is NUL on MS-DOS/Windows but it doesn't exist in the file
> system.

As /dev/null and NUL are not trivially portable, any objections to
adding an empty file to TeX?

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig



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