On 25 March 2015 at 10:44, luigi scarso <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 3/24/2015 7:36 PM, jfbu wrote: >> >> This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99991 (TeX Live 2014) (preloaded >>> format=xetex 2014.7.10) 24 MAR 2015 19:25 >>> >>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014) >>> (preloaded format=pdfetex 2015.1.21) 24 MAR 2015 19:35 >>> >>> This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.79.1 (TeX Live 2014) (rev 4971) >>> (format=luatex 2014.7.10) 24 MAR 2015 19:36 >>> >> >> btw, you should run pdftex/xetex in -8bit mode in order to compare >> >> pdftex -8bit > and > xetex -8bit > both give the same result > (luatex is in '-8bit' mode by default). > > -- > luigi > It's true that luatex acts like pdftex -8bit here but this appears to be a bug (in all three engines) \immediate\write20{start} \catcode`\^^M=12 \immediate\write20{aaaa^^Mb^^Mc} \bye outputs caaa that is the ^^M is causing the write to restart the line overprinting earlier characters. pdftex without -8bit produces aaaa^^Mb^^Mc David
