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?

Hans

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