[texhax] Some puzzling TeX

[Uwe Lueck]

"Paul Isambert" <zappathustra at free.fr>
> Le 22/02/2011 14:09, Uwe Lueck a écrit :
>> I wonder at this point how this is with XeTeX and LuaTeX ...
>> and cannot afford right now browsing their documentations ...
>
> LuaTeX expects a number between 0 and 1,114,111 (the largest Unicode 
> code point).
> As for XeTeX, I suppose it depends on the encoding being used, but I 
> haven't tried.

Actually it now seems to me that I have worried about this earlier, 
maybe even on this list, and looked up at page 117 of Jonathan 
Kews TUGboat article presenting XeTeX (saved on my harddisk):

    http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb26-2/kew.pdf

Cheers, 

    Uwe.