[luatex] incompatible change to mathcode

luigi scarso luigi.scarso at gmail.com
Wed May 9 10:00:07 CEST 2012


On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Keith J. Schultz <schultzk at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> From the bug report:
>
> Description of bug:
> LuaTeX's \mathcode is extended to allow for a 21-bit character argument.
> This seems to cause errors when using bm.sty with LuaLaTeX.
>
> A 21-bit character argument! That would mean that it is stored in  bit
> field!
> If so, then the manipulation of the bit field could be flawed.
The Unicode Standard encodes characters in the range U+0000..U+10FFFF,
which amounts to a 21-bit code space.
I guess that how they are stored is  not the problem.

-- 
luigi



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