Re: [AUCTeX] wrong encoding for *output* buffer

[jfbu]

Le 1 févr. 2018 à 13:27, David Kastrup <address@hidden> a écrit :

> jfbu <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Le 1 févr. 2018 à 12:58, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> a écrit :
>> 
>>> 
>>>>> My question was probably not precise enough: I wonder why auctex
>>>>> doesn't set the buffer encoding also (derived from the master
>>>>> file's local variables), given that auctex itself generates the
>>>>> *xxx output* buffer.
>>>> 
>>>> TeX is an 8-bit program wrapping its output, [...]
>>> 
>>> I was specifically asking for XeTeX.
>>> 
>>>> [...] including output containing quotes of the source as error
>>>> locators, every 79bytes, irrespective of character boundaries?  It
>>>> also may encode some bytes in the middle of a character as ^^xx.
>>> 
>>> IIRC, XeTeX is going to fix that (or already has) so that UTF-8
>>> characters won't be broken in the middle of the sequence.
>> 
>> 
>> even pdflatex does with option -8bit
>> 
>> ---- file test.tex
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \begin{document}
>> \typeout{éàù}
>> \end{document}
>> ----
> 
> Lines are still getting wrapped after 79 bytes.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup

yes, besides my test file is just crap

I wanted to do it but with 7bit ascii control characters rather
once they are given suitable catcodes

apologies

Jean-François