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

[Klaus Ethgen]

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Am Sa den  5. Jul 2014 um  2:24 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
> On 2014-07-04 at 09:42:45 +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> 
>  > Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
>  > 
>  > >  > While latin1 can include every possible character, UTF-8 cannot.
>  > > 
>  > > This is definitely wrong.  The opposite is true.
>  > 
>  > no, it's correct: iso 8859-1 has no "forbidden" octets (it does, iirc,
>  > have some unassigned ones)
>  > 
>  > whereas
>  > 
>  > utf-8 rejects some octets in some contexts, since it's generating a
>  > 32-bit glyph from 8-bit input.  (it's complicated.  honest.)
> 
> True, but we were talking about characters and a character is not
> necessarily an octet.  I suppose that the confusion arose bcause we
> don't use the term 'character' in the same way.

Sorry, I mostly mean characters in the sense of C programs. Octet would
be the correct naming. In case of UTF-8 characters it would be better to
use »codepoints« instead of »characters«.

And to clearify what I meant before (even if Robin made it clear
before), UTF-8 has forbidden _octets_ while latin1 has not. And even
worse, the forbidden octets could even not be translated from latin1 to
UTF-8 as I remember correct. (I mean that octets that you would watch as
waste in the terminal when using latin1; but it could leastwise be
displayed and used to rename the file.

Regards
   Klaus
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