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 f1E5aHH29979 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:36:17 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1E5aCd04716 . for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:36:12 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 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 f1E5aC729399 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:36:12 +0100 (MET) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09648.0D389E80" 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 GAA23356 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:36:11 +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 f1E5aAM17048 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:36:11 +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 <7.DDBCF448@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 6:36:03 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 487551 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:35:50 +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 GAA13038 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:35:49 +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 GAA34758 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:35:48 +0100 Received: from trmail.triumf.ca (trmail.Triumf.CA [142.90.100.150]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1E5Zmg15053 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:35:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from triumf.ca (mutant.Triumf.CA [142.90.112.22]) by trmail.triumf.ca (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1E5Zk820009 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:35:46 -0800 Organization: TRIUMF Return-Path: X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:42:55 +0100 Message-ID: <3A8A1ADF.CE5F089F@triumf.ca> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Donald Arseneau" 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: 3910 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09648.0D389E80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David Carlisle writes: > use unicode internally in standard TeX (which is a 7bit system > pretending to be 8bit). The first time you said this I brushed it off, figuring you meant LaTeX is 7bit (which it is, when using inputenc). But TeX really is 8bit. What were you thinking of? If it is screen output like "^^fa" then this is no different from TeX's output of "^^I", and it is just part of the sysstem-specific configuration. If it is ugly hackery in the source code, that is also the same as all else in TeX. Donald Arseneau asnd@triumf.ca ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09648.0D389E80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary

David Carlisle <davidc@NAG.CO.UK> writes:

> use unicode internally in standard TeX (which is = a 7bit  system
> pretending to be 8bit).

The first time you said this I brushed it off, = figuring you
meant LaTeX is 7bit (which it is, when using = inputenc).

But TeX really is 8bit.

What were you thinking of?  If it is screen = output like "^^fa"
then this is no different from TeX's output of = "^^I", and it
is just part of the sysstem-specific = configuration.  If it is
ugly hackery in the source code, that is also the = same as all
else in TeX.

Donald = Arseneau           = ;            =    asnd@triumf.ca

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