Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f16H2EH19465 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:02:14 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f16H2Dd05429 . for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:02:13 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C0905E.8D666F00" Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f16H2CM15817 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:02:12 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.57]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA23237 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:02:12 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f16H2B724012 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:02:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <14.5F475C3E@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:02:02 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 488914 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:02:03 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11023 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:02:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA23916 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:02:02 +0100 Received: from csc.albany.edu (sarah.albany.edu [169.226.1.103]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f16H1qu15721 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:01:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from pluto.math.albany.edu (pluto.math.albany.edu [169.226.23.44]) by csc.albany.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA11966 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:01:28 -0500 (EST) Received: (from hammond@localhost) by pluto.math.albany.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA21339 for LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:01:27 -0500 (EST) Return-Path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: default inputenc/fontenc tight to language Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:01:27 +0100 Message-ID: <200102061701.MAA21339@pluto.math.albany.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "William F. Hammond" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3724 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0905E.8D666F00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David Carlisle writes: > But whether the internal > canonical form is a unicode number or a latex style 7bit string \'e > the issues of mapping between input encodings and this internal form, > and from there to font encodings, are probably about the same. But isn't \'e an abbreviation for \acute{e}, and don't the French conceptualize it as an accented 'e'? And isn't that a better way to handle this particular thing when the author thinks of it as an accented 'e' rather than as a different character? I see \'e and \uE9 as formally different things, which probably should be typeset the same way by TeX in this case since \uE9 is a legacy hack for handling \'e . -- Bill ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0905E.8D666F00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: default inputenc/fontenc tight to language

David Carlisle writes:

>          =             &= nbsp;           &n= bsp;          But whether = the internal
> canonical form is a unicode number or a latex = style 7bit string \'e
> the issues of mapping between input encodings = and this internal form,
> and from there to font encodings, are probably = about the same.

But isn't \'e an abbreviation for \acute{e}, and don't = the French
conceptualize it as an accented 'e'?  And isn't = that a better way
to handle this particular thing when the author = thinks of it as an
accented 'e' rather than as a different = character?

I see \'e and \uE9 as formally different things, which = probably should
be typeset the same way by TeX in this case since = \uE9 is a legacy
hack for handling \'e .

          &nbs= p;            = ;            = -- Bill

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