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 f1CGXt920655 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:33:55 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1CGXod29939 . for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:33:50 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 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 f1CGXmM25322 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:33:49 +0100 (MET) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09511.97321B80" 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 RAA19438 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:33:47 +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 f1CGXfM25295 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:33:41 +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 <8.6320DA8B@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:33:34 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 488797 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:33:38 +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 RAA11754 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:33:36 +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 RAA53948 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:33:36 +0100 Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with SMTP id f1CGXau08041 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:33:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from boole.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 12 Feb 2001 16:33:35 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <14984.3191.15849.63044@spqr.oucs.ox.ac.uk>; from sebastian.rahtz@COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC.UK on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:16:55PM +0000 References: <14982.52380.897443.588837@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <14982.53422.402117.63648@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <14983.2022.587938.334186@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <14983.47178.155759.245619@spqr.oucs.ox.ac.uk> <20010212145128.A15449@turing.maths.tcd.ie> <14983.64319.129182.60126@fell.open.ac.uk> <14984.64.432416.64500@spqr.oucs.ox.ac.uk> <14984.2975.249847.854981@fell.open.ac.uk> <14984.3191.15849.63044@spqr.oucs.ox.ac.uk> Return-Path: User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: LaTeX's internal char prepresentation (UTF8 or Unicode?) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:33:35 +0100 Message-ID: <20010212163335.A43861@boole.maths.tcd.ie> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Timothy Murphy" 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: 3855 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09511.97321B80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:16:55PM +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > You are ducking the (semi-serious) issue. What *do* you mean by the > archival and communication language? the fact that the word "TeX" is > recognized by mathematicians the world over? so long as they don't try > to exchange files.... I think virtually all mathematics today at a research level is written = in LaTeX. I never heard of any problem in the last 5 years (say) exchanging files, except perhaps documents in Russian and Greek, and some problems with Amer Phys Soc documents until a couple of years = ago. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: 086-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09511.97321B80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: LaTeX's internal char prepresentation (UTF8 or = Unicode?)

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:16:55PM +0000, Sebastian = Rahtz wrote:

> You are ducking the (semi-serious) issue. What = *do* you mean by the
> archival and communication language? the fact = that the word "TeX" is
> recognized by mathematicians the world over? so = long as they don't try
> to exchange files....

I think virtually all mathematics today at a research = level is written in LaTeX.
I never heard of any problem in the last 5 years = (say) exchanging files,
except perhaps documents in Russian and Greek,
and some problems with Amer Phys Soc documents until = a couple of years ago.

--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: 086-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, = Dublin 2, Ireland

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