>> 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. Anyway, it's a minor issue. Werner _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list auctex@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex