Hi Hans,
I ran just now ruby 1.8.6 and the force_encoding() patch worked well.
Just now I upgrade "--context=current". The banner in the texexec.rb is
banner = ['TeXExec', 'version 6.2.1', '1997-2009', 'PRAGMA ADE/POD']
and the date of this script (after updating) is 10-04-2009 (its April..)
I'm running mkii. How do I get mkii beta scripts, as texexec.rb you mention?
All my rubys are compiled from the box with mingw in windows
(2000 or XP, in 3 different machines). Of course the encoding
thing is different in Linux, Windows (and DOS prompts, for the matter),
so there is probably different behavior in ruby/context/tex interaction with
chars in Linux and Windows boxes...
Thx
Jose
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Hans Hagen
Jose Augusto wrote:
Meanwhile I don't think that the magic string
# encoding: ASCII-8BIT solves the problem. This string indicates that the script is written in ASCII-8BIT, but when is reading the strings from the .tex or .tui files ruby 1.9.1 considers them as US-ASCII regardless of the encoding declared in # encoding: ...
not when opened as 'rb' (which i do in the latest texexec.rb) so i wonder why that does not work at your place
(http://blog.nuclearsquid.com/writings/ruby-1-9-encodings)
i run ruby 1.8.6 (and on a couple of servers even older versions and i'm not going to touch ruby on these machines (i don't want to patch scripts that are supposed to run another 5-10 years) but i might update context and texexec)
I introduced " # encoding: ASCII-8BIT " in texmfstart.rb, tex.rb and
texutil.rb and the problem didn't disapeer :-(
hm, it worked here
Of course I may be wrong. But the experiments I did make me think this
way. Also, I don't have Linux at my disposal (I mean, with context installed) and there the behavior perhaps is different...
that's my biggest fear ... introducing more problems
Hans
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