[tex-live] TL2018: UTF-8 characters in file names with pdflatex

[David Carlisle]

hmm for all variants that I can detect are using things incompatible
with inputenc it is not preloaded



% Skip this section in Unicode TeX, or if  MLTeX and EncTeX are enabled.
%    \begin{macrocode}
\ifnum0%
  \ifx\Umathchar\@undefined\else 1\fi
  \ifx\mubyte\@undefined\else 1\fi
  \ifx\charsubdef\@undefined\else 1\fi
  =\z@


so in a format built with enctex there should be no change in the 2018
release (or that's a bug, sorry)

David


On 25 July 2018 at 10:51, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was too busy with my own work so that I almost have not tested TL 2018. I
> found that my LaTeX documents do not work and since I have all releases
> starting at 2014, I have just switched back and had no time to examine it
> further.
>
> Now I probably know the reason. I often use constructions as
> \futurelet\next\dosomething or \everypar{\setinitial} with
> \def\setinitial#1{... do something with the first character ...}. For these
> macros everything must be a character with category 11 or 12, not an active
> character. The inputenc package in case of UTF8 will give me just a part of
> the character. For this reason I use encTeX where active characters are not
> needed. As I am thinking about it just now, it seems to be easily solvable.
> The encoding files for encTeX can start with \csname
> UseRawInputEncoding\endcsname which will revert the encoding for new LaTeX
> and insert harmless \relax in all other cases. The same encTeX files are
> also used in the plain TeX so \csname seems to me as most portable.
>
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
> 2018-07-25 11:36 GMT+02:00 David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On 25 July 2018 at 09:18, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > pdflatex is an 8-bit SW, it is not Unicode-aware. It is achieved by
>> > active
>> > characters which break a lot of things. Almost all my older files ceased
>> > to
>> > work with pdflatex and TL2018 .
>> >>
>>
>> That's very surprising, you could have reported at least one to the team!
>>
>> Since the release I have only seen one report of a user file that
>> generated an error
>> (and that was silently mos-interpreting non ascii input in older
>> releases so the error wasn#t really a bad thing)
>>
>> If you have an example of a conforming document that failed to work
>> after the 2018 release let us know
>> at the very least we can add to the documentation to say what to do,
>> if that is not covered by the existing documentation.
>>
>>
>> David
>
>