[luatex] Odd Lua issue with ^^@

[David Carlisle]

On 29 March 2017 at 09:51, Joseph Wright
<joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk> wrote:
> On 29/03/2017 09:36, Akira Kakuto wrote:
>>> ....\T1/cmr/m/n/10 ^@
>>> ....\kern -5.13763 (for accent)
>>
>> Previously we were using static int read_line() by Taco.
>> Now we are using one in lua 5.2.4, where there is a line:
>> l = strlen(p);
>> Probably this seems to be a reason of the difference.
>>
>> Best,
>> Akira
>
> All understood (David C. has tracked down an 'interesting' discussion of
> the handling of ^^@ when reading files in pure Lua).


See

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2014-02/threads.html#00159

(quite a long thread:-)

>
> As I said in reply to Luigi, I'll adjust the script concerned to allow
> for this change.
>
> Joseph
>