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 f1BL1dH12174 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:01:39 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1BL1dd26330 . for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:01:39 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C0946D.D3AC3B80" Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1BL1c726655 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:01:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.56]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA26365 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:01:38 +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 mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1BL1bM15134 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:01:38 +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 <9.A791D5B8@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:01:31 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 487806 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:01:34 +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 WAA26958 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:01:33 +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 WAA22082 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:01:33 +0100 Received: from Sina.sharif.ac.ir (sina.Sharif.AC.IR [194.225.40.9]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1BL1Qu25207 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:01:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (roozbeh@localhost) by Sina.sharif.ac.ir (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA19276 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 00:31:21 +0330 In-Reply-To: <14982.57305.803280.384306@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Return-Path: X-Sender: roozbeh@Sina.sharif.ac.ir Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: LaTeX's internal char representation (UTF8 or Unicode?) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:01:21 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Roozbeh Pournader" 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: 3821 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0946D.D3AC3B80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > Now we clearly can't provide all such combinations we would need to > effectively model those things as > > \" g % (somehow at some stage and perhaps in some disguise) > > > have i lost everybody? hope not I am with you. So let's make it written: LaTeX can't have anything like UTF-8 as a internal character representation if not running over Omega, because of the different accent model. I can be sure that Javier = is also with you, since he really likes accent juggling in multiple phases = ;) --roozbeh ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0946D.D3AC3B80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: LaTeX's internal char representation (UTF8 or = Unicode?)

On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Frank Mittelbach wrote:

> Now we clearly can't provide all such = combinations we would need to
> effectively model those things as
>
>   \" g  % (somehow at some = stage and perhaps in some disguise)
>
>
> have i lost everybody? hope not

I am with you. So let's make it written: LaTeX can't = have anything like
UTF-8 as a internal character representation if not = running over
Omega, because of the different accent model. I can = be sure that Javier is
also with you, since he really likes accent juggling = in multiple phases ;)

--roozbeh

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