On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 11:21:39AM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > > The attached patch fixes the problem reported by Uwe. I am afraid but > > with mingw/cygwin the setlocale() thing doesn't really work, so I always > > assume iso-8859-1 (latin1). > > dt2dv/dv2dt should not be aware of any locale. They simply should process > the raw data without interpretation. > IMO the isprint test is wrong and should be dropped completely. At least for > our usage we know that everything we put in the dtl file is OK.
Sorry Georg, I didn't really study the dtl sources. If the author felt necessary testing if a character was a printable one, I have to trust him that this is the correct thing to do. > Could you prepare & commit a patch that does this, including a comment why > we do so? Hmm, without a full understanding of what could go wrong if a control character is let in, I will not do that. Notice that the occurrence of a non-ascii character in the body of a document has never been a problem. The problem reported by Uwe was due to the use of non-ascii characters as arguments of the \pdfauthor and \pdfsubject macros. -- Enrico
