El lun, 3 ago 2026 a la(s) 3:02 a.m., Hans Hagen via ntg-context (
[email protected]) escribió:
> On 8/3/2026 9:29 AM, Jairo A. del Rio wrote:
> > Hi, list! When one tries to print non-ASCII characters using
> > logs.texerrormessage, based on tex.error, "weird character" and a
> > negative value is printed and characters are just ignored. This warning
> > comes from here in texprinting.c:
> >
> > 153 │ void tex_print_char(int s)
> > 154 │ {
> > 155 │ if (s < 0 || s > 255) {
> > 156 │ tex_formatted_warning("print", "weird character %i", s);
> >
> > I wonder whether a cast is needed here or it's rather a bug coming from
> > custom compiling flags as it is my case.
>
> Unless I did something wrong, this one should never be called with a
> negative or > 255 integer as it eventually outputs one byte. If there
> are unicode characters printed they go via the utf serializer (that
> iself then outputs per char). So, this test is kind of redundant but if
> you somehow have > 255 integers going into it, the test indicates an
> error anyway. Fwiw, this logging is kind of complex as we have log file
> in parallel to terminal output and in other printing routines also pipe
> into strings.
>
I removed the test and recompiled both luametatex and ConTeXt. Now Unicode
characters are printed normally and everything else seems to work as I
compile some documents
> (The engine is - and always was - outputting unbuffered because
> otherwise users can be puzzled by the lack of output while tex is
> working hard on something, esp on machine 40 years ago. here we put a
> lot of effort in making it as efficient as possible, given the
> constraints. Also think of Lua beging in the game with output.)
>
> Hans
>
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