tl2020 pretest begin

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 8:16 PM Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> > 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.
>
> No, you simply DON'T GET IT!!! IT IS CORRECT!!!!
>
> Start up emacs
>         C-x RET c
>         iso-8859-2
>         C-x C-f
>         README
> That is, select iso-8859-2 for opening the file, and you will see that
> it displays ***absolutely** correct ...
>
> It is YOUR EDITOR that is broken because it assumes UTF-8.
>
> This file is, as it is also stated in the first lines, encoded in
> iso-8859-2.
>
> Norbert
>

Norbert,

You are correct! Sorry. If you tell your editor by hand to use ISO-8859-2,
you get the correct display, but my point is different.

The OS tries to determine the encoding and then open the file on what
believes it is the correct one. At the time that package was written
ISO-8859-2 was really common in Czechoslovakia, now it is no longer the
case - now they use UTF-8 in the region.

Paulo Ney
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