Re: XeTeX "hangs"

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Otared Kavian wrote:
>
> On 24 mai 2006, at 10:07, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> what do you get when you run that with \tracingall�
>>
>>
>> \tracingall�
>>
>>
>> Testing... �
>>
>>
>> and what does�
>>
>>
>> \show �
>>
>>
>> return? and what�
>>
>>
>> Testing... �aaa
>>
>>
>> Hans�
>>
>
> Hi Hans,
>
> This file:
> %% eth-hans-1.tex
> \starttext
> what do you get when you run that with \tracingall
>
> Testing... �
>
> \catcode`�=\active \def�{^^F0}
> \tracingall
>
> Testing... �
>
> and what does
>
> %\show �
>
> return? and what
>
> Testing... �aaa
>
> Hans
>
> \stoptext
> %% end eth-hans-1.tex
>
> typeset with XeConTeXt gives a PDF where again one has "Testing...��" 
> in the first occurence, and then "Testing... � 0", and the process 
> takes some 41 seconds...
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> If the above file is typeset with ConTeXt alone it stops with the 
> error message:
>
> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
> <to be read again>
>                    ∞
> l.9 \catcode`√∞
>                =\active \def√∞{^^F0}
so, it looks like the `<char><char> is not seen as a combination 

how did the complete test file look?  what does  the following say: 

\bgroup
\let\unicodechar\unicodenumber
\catcode`�=\active \def�{^^F0}
\egroup 

Hans 

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