On 8/3/2026 10:42 AM, Jairo A. del Rio wrote:
El lun, 3 ago 2026 a la(s) 3:02 a.m., Hans Hagen via ntg-context (ntg-
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) escribió:
On 8/3/2026 9:29 AM, Jairo A. del Rio wrote:
> Hi, list! When one tries to print non-ASCII characters using
> logs.texerrormessage, based on tex.error, "weird character" and a
> negative value is printed and characters are just ignored. This
warning
> comes from here in texprinting.c:
>
> 153 │ void tex_print_char(int s)
> 154 │ {
> 155 │ if (s < 0 || s > 255) {
> 156 │ tex_formatted_warning("print", "weird character
%i", s);
>
> I wonder whether a cast is needed here or it's rather a bug
coming from
> custom compiling flags as it is my case.
Unless I did something wrong, this one should never be called with a
negative or > 255 integer as it eventually outputs one byte. If there
are unicode characters printed they go via the utf serializer (that
iself then outputs per char). So, this test is kind of redundant but if
you somehow have > 255 integers going into it, the test indicates an
error anyway. Fwiw, this logging is kind of complex as we have log file
in parallel to terminal output and in other printing routines also pipe
into strings.
I removed the test and recompiled both luametatex and ConTeXt. Now
Unicode characters are printed normally and everything else seems to
work as I compile some documents
well, it means that you let c print an invalid character so i guess it
will crash at some point
what was your test case as it might was wel be some other issue there
Hans
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