@JosephWright logged. It's possible that you got git-pinged as well. :-)

@Johannes_B Indeed

@egreg: I agree with the comment about \begingroup...\endgroup (or \bgroup...\egroup).

That's covered in A.Ellett's answer, so I'll keep it as is.

@Werner Whenever one has to revert a setting, grouping is better. Not always possible, though.

@egreg Yes, since I don't know what % may have been before the \catcode adjustment, sure...

@JosephWright media9 thread?

@Werner Well, this one is quite trustworthy (except in .dtx files, of course). But one never knows…

@DavidCarlisle Other one

@JosephWright ah I see now, gmail was just waking up..

@JosephWright As I said the other day I feared as much.

@DavidCarlisle Yup

@DavidCarlisle Send \Uchar patch to TL?

I am very new to the laTx codes, and expect easier solutions.

@Johannes_B ?

@JosephWright do you think it is worth adding if it is broken above FFFF, I'm not sure. I know string is broken as well but adding a new primitive that is known to be broken seems wrong.

@JosephWright Community dragged up a Q on main and the OP left that comment. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/235200/…

@DavidCarlisle OK, so first we need to fix above FFFF?

@JosephWright I thought it would be easy but seems hard, (or at least I failed:-) If I'm reading the code right it uses utf32 in the main character token buffer but utf16 in the string pool (I think) and then doesn't really distinguish this anywhere so if I fixed one thing something else broke, but I don't know the web code that well. The original patch was Bruno's perhaps he has more insight, or we could post it to TL list and perhaps interest Peter or someone who really knows the web sources

@DavidCarlisle In the first instance, perhaps we might ask Jonathan Kew would look at this specific issue: he after all did the work to get there from 8-bit

@DavidCarlisle He still takes an interest, after all

@JosephWright yes but I assume he's on xetex list and didn't respond to my initial email, so wasn't sure how to push that

@DavidCarlisle Well at least lay out the detail as far as you understand it (I think you only said something like 'I see where the problem is')

@egreg England 144-1 (41.1 overs) won by nine wickets

@DavidCarlisle Cool

There and back again ... a tale by ... the Black Forester ;-)

@ChristianHupfer Curry

@Johannes_B: Garam Masala

@ChristianHupfer tfl :-p

@Johannes_B: With 0.00000000% liver ;-)

@ChristianHupfer Ooops github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/314

@Johannes_B: github addict ;-)

Missing Paulo... a duckless world is a useless world

@ChristianHupfer Addict? Me? tralalala

@ChristianHupfer True that. @Paulo! PAULO!! Hello? echo?

@Johannes_B: I haven't seen him being online today...

@ChristianHupfer you know he's been (or still is) over the atlantic?

@ChristianHupfer Cannot remember. I was looking at biblatex related stuff all day.

@ChristianHupfer Tommorow, Nudeln mit Tomatensoße und Wurscht und Käse.

@DavidCarlisle: I thought his flight was yesterday, not today

@Johannes_B: Tommorow sounds a like city in Russia :-P

@ChristianHupfer I think @PauloCereda will stay longer than just two hours for the talk and immediately fly back?

@Johannes_B: I could testify that you wrote @PaulGessler in that line before ...

@ChristianHupfer I did indeed. But in meant Paulo. I am tired.

@ChristianHupfer who? what? where? {\bf @PaulMcCartney?}

@ChristianHupfer oh yes, so it was (I blame xetex)

@DavidCarlisle: xetex is your excuse for anything, I assume ;-)

@ChristianHupfer seems a reasonable position to take

@PaulGessler: @PauloMcCartney, the artist formely known as the Great Duck

Hey, perhaps really trivial but how to I get the correct alignment in my document here: i.imgur.com/PUUdxZS.png?1 the minus has way too much space before and after, as if it were a math operation sign thingy...

@1010011010 {-} as a guess but showing your input more useful than showing the output:-)

\begin{equation}
\Psi=\sum_k c_k |k\rangle|{-}k\rangle
\end{equation}

this worked

Thanks..

:21300042|<zz|zz> seems a strange notation, what's it mean?

@DavidCarlisle vvv

@SeanAllred 403 denied?

@SeanAllred :-)

@DavidCarlisle ? i.stack.imgur.com/1ye3k.jpg It apparently shows up for Joseph…

@DavidCarlisle Great! Once a year also England wins! :P

@SeanAllred that one works, first gives http denied error

@egreg first away win since 2012

@DavidCarlisle very strange.

Any news about our flying duck?

@SeanAllred image very true though

@DavidCarlisle :)

@DavidCarlisle Correction: once every three years also England wins. :P

So is @Paulo's 1000+ day strike coming to its end? His profile says: Last seen yesterday...

@yo': \let\yo'\PauloCereda --> Go ahead and login ;-)

@ChristianHupfer undefined control sequence: \PauloCereda, unless you \catcode`\'=12

@PauloCereda: Come back and login....

My evil mind wanted to misuse biblatex to do something special, why not use the wonderful date implementation for something else? The date wasn't printed correct, missing $ inserted. Today i revisited the project after working with biblatex the whole day anyway. Turns out, that i overlooked something simple and non biblatex related. I used \colon instead of \addcolon.

@ChristianHupfer only 2h5m left for him ...

@yo' There are so many mobile things in europe, should be easy with those smart phones.

@Johannes_B with a Brazilian roaming? who knows... I'm worried about it a bit though

@yo' Let's not worry. I bet he is just fine. Right @PauloCereda?

@JosephWright Good morning, i am sorry to bug you once more, but can you have a look at the following?

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[bibstyle=standard,date=long,abbreviate=false]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
	@inproceedings{dateTest,
	date={2014-11/2015-04-26},
	author={JB},
	translator={JW and AB and PLK},
	title={is the date \emph{long} as seen in the manual?},
}
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}
\fullcite{dateTest}
\end{document}