Hi List,

As my macbook is too old to update (according to apple) and will not be upgraded soon (if at all) I cannot test the attached issue. So it's up to others.

(My ipad is also too old so it seems I'm stuck with less and less useable apple hardware even if it's not yet broken down.)

Hans


-------- Original Message --------

Subject:        bug in switch.rb
Date:   Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:07:47 +0100
From:   Ian Spackman <ian.spack...@virginmedia.com>



Since upgrading to Mac OS X.9 I haven't been able to use ConTeXt/XeTex:
on even a minimal file I get the message

/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 `'

which refers to this method

     def cleanvalue(value)
         if value then
             # value.sub(/^([\"\'])(.*?)\1$/) { $2.gsub(/\xFF/o, ' ') }
             value.gsub(/\xFF/o, ' ')
         else
             ''
         end
     end

in
# module    : base/switch
# copyright : PRAGMA Advanced Document Engineering
# version   : 2002-2005
# author    : Hans Hagen

XeTeX 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3-2013052718 (TeX Live 2013)
mtx-context     | ConTeXt Process Management 0.60
mtx-context     |
mtx-context     | main context file:
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/context.mkiv
mtx-context     | current version: 2013.04.20 01:15
TeX 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2013)


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