[XeTeX] failure making xelatex in install

[Jonathan Kew]

On 23 Aug 2006, at 4:15 pm, James Cloos wrote:

> The install for both the release and TRUNK fails with this:
>
> ,----
> | Latin Hyphenation Patterns `lahyph' Version 3.0b <2001/11/21>)
> | (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/huhyphn.tex
> | Huhyphn - hungarian hyphenation patterns v20031107
> | ! Nonletter.
> | l.33 .ad౱
> |            s
> | ?
> | ! Emergency stop.
> | l.33 .ad౱
> |            s
> | No pages of output.
> | Transcript written on xelatex.log.
> | Error: `xetex -ini  -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex  
> *xelatex.ini' failed
> |
> |  
> ###################################################################### 
> #########
> | fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
> | Visit the log files in directory
> |   /var/lib/texmf/web2c
> | for details.
> |  
> ###################################################################### 
> #########
> |
> | This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings:
> | `xetex -ini  -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex *xelatex.ini' failed
> `----
>
> huhyphn.tex claims to be in T1 encoding, which makes that character
> \agrave, making the word on line 33 .adás1s.

Right... but xetex defaults to reading input files as UTF-8, and  
therefore misinterprets this.

The simplest workaround for now is to disable Hungarian in the LaTeX  
language.dat configuration file, assuming you don't really need to  
use it. If you *do* need it, then it's necessary to deal with the  
encoding issue.

As part of integrating xetex with TeX Live, I'm working on a proper  
solution to this, but for now it's a bit of a hassle; sorry!

JK