[luatex] 'Out by one' error (?) in \csname messages

[Dan Luecking]

On Fri Jun 6, 2014, at 17:57:58 CEST luigi scarso (luigi.scarso at 
gmail.com) wrote:


> >
> > I think, Joseph is referring to the messed up error message in LuaTeX.
> >
>ah ok, "off by one" in the string printed.

Actually, the string printed has the correct number of characters,
but it has an extra null (^^@) after the "\" and is missing the
ending "e". Could it rather be a bug in printing \escapechar?


Dan


Daniel H. Luecking
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Fayetteville, Arkansas
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html