Dear LuaTeXies,

I have been experimenting with Unicode characters (> 0x00FF) in \pdfoutlines 
(bookmarks) in (plain)LuaTeX. This post

  http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/dev-luatex/2008-July/001694.html

helped me to find out that the contents of the pdfoutline will be interpreted 
as UTF-16 if they are preceded by the BOM 0xFE 0xFF (which in LuaTeX can be 
output using the 0x1100FE 0x1100FF notation). After this BOM the Greek letter 
alpha (Unicode 0x03B1) can be presented as 0x110003 0x1100B1. The (very 
minimal) convertPDFstring function in the sample below takes care of this. 
However, when trying to present positions < 0x0100 I ran into a problem. It 
turned out that LuaTeX does not output 0x110000 to the pdf and this is needed 
for these positions; for example the letter a (0x0061) would be output as 
0x110000 0x110061. Is this intended behaviour? The LuaTeX manual seems to 
present 0x110000 as a valid way to output a byte-sized chunk.

> Output in byte-sized chunks can be achieved by using characters just outside 
> of the valid Unicode range, starting at the value 1,114,112 (0x110000). When 
> the time comes to print a character c> = 1,114,112, LuaTEX will actually 
> print the single byte corresponding to c minus 1,114,112.

Any suggestions?

Best, Ivo.

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\begingroup
\catcode`\%=12
\directlua{
  function convertPDFstring(s)
    tex.write(unicode.utf8.char(0x1100FE, 0x1100FF))
    for c in string.utfvalues(s) do
      tex.write(unicode.utf8.char(0x110000 + c / 256, 0x110000 + c % 256))
    end
  end
}
\endgroup

line 1\pdfdest num 1 xyz\pdfoutline goto num 1 count 
0{\directlua{convertPDFstring('αβγāĉđ')}} % works fine

line 2\pdfdest num 2 xyz\pdfoutline goto num 2 count 
0{\directlua{convertPDFstring('abcdef')}} % not working

\bye




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