Re: texutil "malformed UTF-8 character" error

[Duncan Hothersall <dh@capdm.com>]

Hans wrote:

> in cont-new (or cont-sys) you can say:
> 
> \def\testbytesequence{}
> 
> This 'test' was added in order to determine of tex runs in 8 bit 
> mode. I wonder where the Malformed message comes from. Since when is 
> perl utf-8 by default?
> 
> (i run perl 5.8.0)

I'm running 5.8.0 too (on Redhat).

I have added \def\testbytesequence{} to the end of cont-new and the 
errors go away - but unfortunately I'm still not getting any register 
output. I still get

       register entries : 0 -> 0 entries 0 references

although the .tui file is full of entries as far as I can tell. Maybe 
something esle is wrong - still working on minimal file.

Hans wrote:

> can you check your cp8bit.tcx file? it probably isn't 8 bit -) should
> be:
> 
> 0x00   0x00  %
 > 0x01   0x01  %
 > 0x02   0x02  %
 > 0x03   0x03  %
 > 0x04   0x04  %
> 
> etc

Well on my system that file (which is dated February 29 2000) starts 
like this

more /usr/TeX/texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx:

%% cp8bit.tcx: transparent encoding translation table for TeX
%% input:     any 8-bit text encoding
%% internal TeX: the same encoding (nothing changes, but teTeX will display
%%              8-bit messages on console and in logfile)
%% comment:     This is required in teTeX to see 8-bit messages at 
console and
%%              in logfile (they are displayed in ^^xx form by default).
%%              Usage: add
%%                %& --translate-file=cp8bit.tcx
%%              as a first line of your document.
%%
%%              Prepared by Alexander Bokovoy <bokovoy@minsk.lug.net>
%%              (1999) Public domain
0x80   0x80  %
0x81   0x81  %
0x82   0x82  %
0x83   0x83  %
0x84   0x84  %
0x85   0x85  %
0x86   0x86  %
0x87   0x87  %

etc.


And the first lines of my log file for the job are:

This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2) 
(format=cont-en 2004.
8.22)  23 AUG 2004 08:32
entering extended mode
  %&-line parsing enabled.
  (/usr/TeX/texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)


Thanks for any further insight!

Duncan