X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["547" "Wed" "26" "January" "1994" "09:27:02" "GMT" "Sebastian Rahtz" "spqr@FTP.TEX.AC.UK" "<199401260933.AA27113@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>" "14" "Re: Changing default preloads" "^Date:" nil nil "1" "1994012609:27:02" "Changing default preloads" (number " " mark " Sebastian Rahtz Jan 26 14/547 " thread-indent "\"Re: Changing default preloads\"\n") "<9401260918.AA04389@ftp.tex.ac.uk>"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA08253; Wed, 26 Jan 94 10:33:26 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA24617; Wed, 26 Jan 94 10:33:24 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA27113 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.12]) for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>); Wed, 26 Jan 1994 10:33:22 +0100 Message-Id: <199401260933.AA27113@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Received: from TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE by tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9705; Wed, 26 Jan 94 10:33:23 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin MAILER@DHDURZ1) by TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 9704; Wed, 26 Jan 1994 10:33:24 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin LISTSERV@DHDURZ1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7148; Wed, 26 Jan 1994 10:33:00 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <9401260918.AA04389@ftp.tex.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 09:27:02 GMT From: Sebastian Rahtz Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Changing default preloads Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1288 Frank Mittelbach writes: > Ther is *NO* right place to change the default encoding. > > To keep documents portable it is essential to start off with the same > encoding on every installation. frank is right, i suppose. but it does go against teh grain to have to prefix every file with the same command. the same applies to hyphenation - i suppose you want me to type \language{EN} or whatever at the start of every single thing i write? we are stuck with american hyphenation by default for ever and ever? sigh. i imagine we are sebastian