Re: issue with beta from 2019.11.29 21:47 in Windows

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 12/2/2019 4:18 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I have the following sample:
> 
>      \def\ThisOption{ab}
>      \def\ThatOption{ábc}
>      \starttext
>      \executesystemcommand{contextjit --purgeall
> --arguments="OptionThis={\ThisOption},OptionThat={\ThatOption}" second.tex}
> 
>      \contextversion
>      \stoptext
> 
> The contents of second.tex read:
> 
>      \starttext
>      \enablemode[\env{OptionThis}]
>      \enablemode[\env{OptionThat}]
>      This: \doifmodeelse{ab}{enabled}{disabled}.\par
>      That: \doifmodeelse{ábc}{enabled}{disabled}.
>      \stoptext
> 
> I use --arguments to pass modes to documents compiled via
> \executesystemcommand.
> 
> Everything worked fine. This morning I updated ConTeXt at work (with
> Win7) and modes with non-ASCII chars aren’t recognized.
> 
> Could anyone confirm the issue I’m describing in Windows?
> 
> Is there any ConTeXt command (or Lua function) that translates non-ASCII
> chars to their ASCII values?
define ASCII .. there are no accented characters in ASCII

windows uses code pages so it all depends on what trickles down to the 
command processor; here you pass utf that then gets interpreted 
depending on your environment

as you use luajittex it depends on what the windows binary does (i 
remember reading that something was changed in the native windows 
binaries because it was needed/decided at the latex end) ... one reason 
more to never use non-ascii for critital stuff (lots of chicken egg 
issues there, kind of guaranteed fix this, break that)

anyway, in luametatex with lmtx we're (hopefully) code page neutral (as 
far as i could test; all utf8 and windows utf16) and we're not going to 
touch the default luatex internals like that

Hans

(windows 7 is kind of outdated so you can't expect someone to check that 
setup out)

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