tl2020 pretest begin

Paulo Ney de Souza pauloney at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 04:09:40 CET 2020


On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 8:01 PM Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> Hi Paulo,
>
> > And I assume they are all correct -- in the sense they display the right
> > thing to a reader.
>
> The are all correct, but don't display the right thing.
>
> The basic property of encodings is that, if you don't know the encoding,
> you cannot properly display it.
>
> There are tools for guessing the encoding (nkf eg), but without knowing
> whether it is iso8850, iso-2022, utf8, or whatever strange it might be,
> there is NO way to properly display it.
>
> So what do you mean with correct?
>
> > But something that is signed with "Petr Ol¹ák" is very big indication
> that
> > the file was written in ISO-8859-2 and saved in ISO-8859-1. In fact if
> you
> > change it -- the whole file becomes correct.
>
> No, it was probably **displayed** in 8859-1. You computer environment
> assumes a certain file encoding, but that might be wrong.
>
> Best
>
> Norbert
>

Norbert,

The file has been saved incorrectly. Both Ubuntu and Windows see it like
that. Just take a minute to open the file:

     texlive-source-trunk/utils/vlna/vlna-src/README

and you will see.

Paulo Ney
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