On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 at 10:27, luigi scarso <luigi.sca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 at 22:36, Vítek Novotný <wit...@mail.muni.cz> wrote:
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>> Dear LuaTeX developers,
>>
>> assume the following plain TeX document `example.tex`:
>>
>> \newwrite\outfile
>> \openout\outfile\jobname.out
>> \write\outfile{^^^^fffd}
>> \closeout\outfile
>> \bye
>>
>> Running `luatex example` will correctly produce file `example.out` with
>> the
>> UTF-8 encoding of U+FFFD: 0xEF, 0xBF, and 0xBD.
>>
>> $ hexdump -C
>> 00000000 ef bf bd 0a |....|
>> 00000004
>>
>> Now, let's change `example.tex` as follows:
>>
>> \input\jobname.out
>> \bye
>>
>> Running `luatex example` produces the following error:
>>
>> ! String contains an invalid utf-8 sequence.
>>
>> I would expect that LuaTeX would treat ^^^^fffd and the byte sequence
>> 0xEF,
>> 0xBF, and 0xBD the same. This issue was co-discovered by @lostenderman at
>> <https://github.com/lostenderman/markdown/issues/34>.
>>
>>
> hm, checking it now.
>
>
hm I am not able to reproduce the error... My log says,
Missing character: There is no � (U+FFFD) in font cmr10!
but luatex exits fine
$ luatex --credits
This is LuaTeX, Version 1.15.1 (TeX Live 2023/dev)
The LuaTeX team is Hans Hagen, Hartmut Henkel, Taco Hoekwater, Luigi Scarso.
LuaTeX merges and builds upon (parts of) the code from these projects:
tex : Donald Knuth
etex : Peter Breitenlohner, Phil Taylor and friends
omega : John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous
aleph : Giuseppe Bilotta
pdftex : Han The Thanh and friends
kpathsea : Karl Berry, Olaf Weber and others
lua : Roberto Ierusalimschy, Waldemar Celes and Luiz Henrique de
Figueiredo
metapost : John Hobby, Taco Hoekwater, Luigi Scarso, Hans Hagen and friends
pplib : Paweł Jackowski
fontforge : George Williams (partial)
luajit : Mike Pall (used in LuajitTeX)
Compiled with libpng 1.6.39; using 1.6.39
Compiled with lua version 5.3.6
Compiled with mplib version 2.02
Compiled with zlib 1.2.13; using 1.2.13
Development id: 7554
