On 18 Sep 2013, at 11:18, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 9/18/2013 10:47 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote: >> As my computer died I had to set up a clean one. I installed MacTeX 2013 >> and tried to compile a ConTeXt project, but this failed: >> >> texexec --pdf --mode=editor --once .../products/prd_book.tex >> >> resolvers | caches | path >> '/Users/gerben/Library/texlive/2013/texmf-var' >> created/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in >> `require': >> /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:501: >> invalid multibyte escape: /\xFF/ (SyntaxError) >> from >> /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in >> `require' >> from >> /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:11:in >> `
' >> >> It seems a problem in a ruby file in MacTeX 2013. Can someone help me >> get this working? > > Maybe something utf in the latest ruby ... can you try to replace the \xFF with \xFFFC and see what happens? Same thing happens. Now it says \xFFFC is an invalid multibyte escape G > > Hans > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________