[NTG-context] Re: In LuaMetaTeX, `\read` sometimes doesn't grab the entire balanced text

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I am seeing some other issues with `\read` as well. For example, `\def\first{hello  world}` (notice the two spaces) will store 11 tokens "hello␣world" in `\first` but storing `hello  world` in a text file named `example.txt` and reading that file with `\newread\example \openin\example=example.txt \read\example to\second` in LuaMetaTeX stores 13 tokens "hello␣␣world\n" in `\second`. LuaTeX and other TeX engines would store just 12 tokens "hello␣world\n". This is less of an issue than the one described in the original post and can likely be fixed by using `\scantokens` on `\second`.
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