On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

Jose Augusto wrote:

Meanwhile I don't think that the magic string
# encoding: ASCII-8BIT
solves the problem. This string indicates that the script is written in
ASCII-8BIT,
but when is reading the strings from the .tex or .tui files ruby 1.9.1
considers
them as US-ASCII regardless of the encoding declared in # encoding: ...

not when opened as 'rb' (which i do in the latest texexec.rb) so i wonder why that does not work at your place

(http://blog.nuclearsquid.com/writings/ruby-1-9-encodings)

i run ruby 1.8.6 (and on a couple of servers even older versions and i'm not going to touch ruby on these machines (i don't want to patch scripts that are supposed to run another 5-10 years) but i might update context and texexec)

I introduced " # encoding: ASCII-8BIT " in texmfstart.rb, tex.rb and
texutil.rb
and the problem didn't disapeer :-(

hm, it worked here

Of course I may be wrong. But the experiments I did make me think this way.
Also, I don't have Linux at my disposal (I mean, with context installed) and
there
the behavior perhaps is different...

that's my biggest fear ... introducing more problems

Hans

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