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

[David Kastrup]

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