[tex-live] Problems with non-7bit characters in filename

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Fri Jul 4 04:50:28 CEST 2014


On Fri, 04 Jul 2014, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>  > Thats true. While latin1 can include every possible character, UTF-8
>  > cannot. (possible as possible to have on the wire)
> 
> You misunderstood.  The opposite is true.  UTF-8 (Unicode) supports

I guess what he meant was related to "byte sequences that can be
interpreted as character".

With UTF8 you might have a byte sequence that is not an UTF8 entity,
as he showed.

But this is a problem in all directions ;-)

Norbert

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