Hi,

Not sure if this is helpful, but I get a very similar error when trying to
build the nokogiri gem with RVM & ruby 2.0 on my Mac OS X 10.6.8 machine.
I'm not at that machine currently, but I can post the error if you think
that will help.

Best,
Mica


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> On 9/18/2013 4:53 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>> On 18 Sep 2013, at 11:18, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> 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
>>>> `<main>'
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>
>
> it runs ok with \xFF here in 1.9
>
> in 2.0 i need to patch in that file:
>
> series.each_char do |key| # was .each but there is no alias to each_char
> any longer
>
> does the top of switch.rb mention:
>
> #encoding: ASCII-8BIT
>
> (i do have a prototype of texexec in lua but no time to finish that now
> but i fear at some moment i have to do it as i cannot foresee ruby 2.0
> compatibility issues)
>
>
> Hans
>
>
>
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