The character was encoded as \xFC, which is the valid encoding for the author's name in Latin-1 encoding. However, when UTF-8 characters were added to the file, this representation became invalid.
It triggers an annoying warning in various programs (e.g. XeLaTeX, Tectonic) for every document build. Example in Tectonic:
warning: lineno.sty:296: Invalid UTF-8 byte or sequence at line 296 replaced by U+FFFD.
Many other people also seem to have this problem, as similar warning is featured in their logs on the internet.
Today, 12th November 2023, marks the anniversary of the line's addition. It has remained untouched for exactly 20 years.
kwwette
commented
10 months ago
The character was encoded as
\xFC, which is the valid encoding for the author's name in Latin-1 encoding. However, when UTF-8 characters were added to the file, this representation became invalid.It triggers an annoying warning in various programs (e.g. XeLaTeX, Tectonic) for every document build. Example in Tectonic:
Many other people also seem to have this problem, as similar warning is featured in their logs on the internet.
Today, 12th November 2023, marks the anniversary of the line's addition. It has remained untouched for exactly 20 years.