Re: [NTG-context] Clean Machine, MacTeX 2013 installed, ConTeXt problem

18 Sep 2013


      On 9/18/2013 4:53 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
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On 18 Sep 2013, at 11:18, Hans Hagen  wrote:
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On 9/18/2013 10:47 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
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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?
Same thing happens. Now it says \xFFFC is an invalid multibyte escape
it runs ok with \xFF here in 1.9

in 2.0 i need to patch in that file:

series.each_char do |key| # was .each but there is no alias to each_char 
any longer

does the top of switch.rb mention:

#encoding: ASCII-8BIT

(i do have a prototype of texexec in lua but no time to finish that now 
but i fear at some moment i have to do it as i cannot foresee ruby 2.0 
compatibility issues)

Hans


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