Re: [Dev-luatex] \endlinechar can't be set to non-ASCII values.

4 Apr 2007

      Taco Hoekwater  writes:
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David Kastrup wrote:
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Maybe it would be better if buffer was an array of ASCII rather than
packedASCII, namely encoded in UTF21 (or whatever) internally rather
than UTF8.
No. And thanks for the bug report, will fix.
The hilarious thing is how I found it.  LaTeX's inputenc package does
the following when loading an input encoding definition:

  \advance\endlinechar\@M
  \xdef\saved@space@catcode{\the\catcode`\ }%
  \catcode`\ 9\relax
  \input{#1.def}%
  \advance\endlinechar-\@M
  \catcode`\ \saved@space@catcode\relax

Of course, advancing \endlinechar by 10000 is not quite far enough for
LuaTeX...  Separate report to LaTeX team is out.

-- 
David Kastrup