[tex-live] Technical showstoppers for TL2003

[Hans Hagen]

At 21:40 13/09/2003 +0400, you wrote:

>I hope that TeX in TL2003 is no more dependent on locale (which would
>be nonsense from the document portability point of view), and by
>default uses the ^^ notation to output 8-bit chars, allowing to change
>this with the (non-standard) --translate-file option.

I don't understand this: 8-bit-in equals 8-bit-out, that's quite portable 
if there is *no* translation; in my opinion any translation makes the 
document unportable; locales are an OS-thing and it's the OS that makes the 
document unportable, not tex!

Maybe the tex binary could just disable locales for file writes (aren't 
file writes supposed to be binary?)

Hans
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