[XeTeX] XeTeX and code page 65001

[d fulano]

Maybe try to say \relax to the first ** prompt and then 

type your command at the single * prompt that will appear. 

 

This is the recommended method from the texbook to run tex

interactively, as the ** prompt is where someone puts a file name, 

and \relax enters interactive mode. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:20:40 +0100
From: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX and code page 65001
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2012/2/3 Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
> Trying to help Nat?rcia Fernandes with her query regarding
> Portuguese hyphenation on TeXhax today, I had occasion
> to try the following :
>
>
> ? ? ? ?C:\>xetex
> ? ? ? ?This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (Web2C 2010)
> ? ? ? ? restricted \write18 enabled.
> ? ? ? ?**\showhyphens {nat?rcia}
>
> ? ? ? ?! End of file on the terminal... why?
>
Strange. This is from TL 2011 in Linux x86_64:
 
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011)
**\showhyphens {nat?rcia}
entering extended mode
Missing character: There is no ? in font cmr10!
 
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) detected at line 0
[] \tenrm na-tr-cia
 
\hbox(6.67859+0.0)x16383.99998, glue set 9798.10976 []
 

*
 

>
> If I carry this out in Win/XP's normal catcode r?gime, all proceeds
> normally but the output is corrupt at the point of the accented
> character; if I try the same thing with Lucida Console selected
> as my CMD font and the code page changed to 65001 (Win/XP's number
> for UTF-8) so that I can see the accented "e" in Nat?rcia's name
> correctly, I get instead the above "end of file" message.
>
> Can anyone hazard a guess as to why ?
>
> Philip Taylor