[XeTeX] \meaning on an outside BMP character

David Carlisle d.p.carlisle at gmail.com
Sun Jun 30 18:50:27 CEST 2013


On 30 June 2013 15:01, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 02:20:13PM +0800, Qing Lee wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It is relevant to the subject below.
>>
>> http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2013-January/023967.html
>>
>> I want to catch the character code of an implicit token by using
>> the \meaning trick. But it seems that \meaning of XeTeX does not
>> return the expected result on an outside BMP character (>= 0x10000).
>>
>> My XeTeX version is
>>
>> XeTeX 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3-2013060713 (TeX Live 2013/W32TeX)
>
> Are you sure you is using 0.9999.3 to process the file? I get 120572
> with both XeTeX and LuaTeX.


I see teh same in cygwin/texlive 2013

$ xetex xe333
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3 (TeX Live 2013)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./xe333.tex
> 55349.
l.14 \showthe\cntb
                   %% -> 55349  0xD835
?
> 57084.
l.15 \showthe\cntc
                   %% -> 57084  0xDEFC
?
> 120572.
l.18 \showthe\cnta
                   %% -> 120572 0x1D6FC
?
 )
No pages of output.
Transcript written on xe333.log.


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