Re: [Dev-luatex] Utf-8 too dominant?

Instead, LuaTeX barfs on "\^^9d" and similar ASCII _transliterations_ of characters which happen to be legal _characters_ in Unicode (though not legal _bytes_ in utf-8).

Good spot, I already noticed there was many problems with latex but I thought it was mainly due to pattern files (and I gave up very early on LaTeX in LuaTeX anyway). I suppose the ^^ notation should yield a UTF-8 encoded sequence and not an individual byte (XeTeX indeed is perfectly happy with it).