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 f1DKkkH28182 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:46 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1DKkkd02882 . for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:46 +0100 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 f1DKkfM24517 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:41 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C095FE.143ABF00" 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 VAA15530 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:40 +0100 (MET) 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 f1DKkd707761 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:39 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <4.E474FD6B@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:32 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 489012 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:35 +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 VAA10166 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:34 +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 VAA55378 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:35 +0100 Received: from nx5.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE (nx5.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.131.21]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1DKkYg17060 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from sx2.hrz.uni-dortmund.de by nx5.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE via smtp-local with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:28 +0100 Received: from rigel.univie.ac.at (dial-143145.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.143.145]) by sx2.hrz.uni-dortmund.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f1DKkPK10360; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (sx0005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rigel.univie.ac.at (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA18523; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <14985.13977.836075.844694@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Return-Path: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.95b99 on Emacs 20.6 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:22 +0100 Message-ID: <20010213.214622.129345957.wl@gnu.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Werner LEMBERG" 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: 3899 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C095FE.143ABF00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > - The output encoding is limited to 8 bit fonts, which may not be > > enough to get correct kerning for some languages. (Can someone > > confirm or correct this???) > > We need some examples. I can't find any. Japanese, to a certain extent. But since there are some other typographic oddities which can't be handled properly (i.e. automatically) within TeX, this script isn't a good example. Werner ------_=_NextPart_001_01C095FE.143ABF00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary

> > - The output encoding is limited to 8 bit = fonts, which may not be
> >   enough to get correct kerning = for some languages. (Can someone
> >   confirm or correct = this???)
>
> We need some examples. I can't find any.

Japanese, to a certain extent.  But since there = are some other
typographic oddities which can't be handled = properly
(i.e. automatically) within TeX, this script isn't a = good example.


    Werner

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