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 f1EKd3H04444 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:39:03 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1EKd3d07768 . for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:39:03 +0100 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 f1EKd2717328 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:39:02 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C096C6.2AAC4D80" 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 VAA23237 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:38:58 +0100 (MET) 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 f1EKcvM02830 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:38:57 +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 <12.FAD1E4B4@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:38:49 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 489119 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:38:53 +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 VAA00053 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:38:51 +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 VAA20276 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:38:52 +0100 Received: from knatte.tninet.se (knatte.tninet.se [195.100.94.10]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with SMTP id f1EKcrx07435 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:38:53 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 4322 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2001 21:38:51 +0100 Received: from delenn.tninet.se (HELO algonet.se) (195.100.94.104) by knatte.tninet.se with SMTP; 14 Feb 2001 21:38:51 +0100 Received: from [195.100.226.180] (du180-226.ppp.su-anst.tninet.se [195.100.226.180]) by delenn.tninet.se (BLUETAIL Mail Robustifier 2.2.1) with ESMTP id 937070.183129.982delenn-s1 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:38:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200102141831.SAA07273@penguin.nag.co.uk> References: <3A8A1ADF.CE5F089F@triumf.ca> (message from Donald Arseneau on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:42:55 -0800) <3A8A1ADF.CE5F089F@triumf.ca> Return-Path: X-Sender: haberg@pop.matematik.su.se Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:37:50 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Hans Aberg" 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: 3927 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C096C6.2AAC4D80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 18:31 +0000 2001/02/14, David Carlisle wrote: >But 8bit encodings have never been even remotely like that. >A "natural" system designed for 8bit encodings would have some >sensible way of mapping different input encodings. ... >Similarly the difficulty of producing hyphenation tables that work with >different 8bit font encodings. (Not so much the perceived difficulty of >distributing such a thing, suitable macros could fix that, more the >impossibility of sharing the tables at tex's inner level) What about making a version of TeX that is 32-bit internally; then one hooks up a preprocessor that translates files into 32-bit char's before handing them over to TeX? -- Then base LaTeX on that one. The thing is that it is relatively easy to get a stable version, and one get some extra time waiting for a more advanced successor to TeX. Hans Aberg ------_=_NextPart_001_01C096C6.2AAC4D80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary

At 18:31 +0000 2001/02/14, David Carlisle = wrote:
>But 8bit encodings have never been even remotely = like that.
>A "natural" system designed for 8bit = encodings would have some
>sensible way of mapping different input = encodings.
...
>Similarly the difficulty of producing hyphenation = tables that work with
>different 8bit font encodings. (Not so much the = perceived difficulty of
>distributing such a thing, suitable macros could = fix that, more the
>impossibility of sharing the tables at tex's = inner level)

What about making a version of TeX that is 32-bit = internally; then one
hooks up a preprocessor that translates files into = 32-bit char's before
handing them over to TeX? -- Then base LaTeX on that = one.

The thing is that it is relatively easy to get a = stable version, and one
get some extra time waiting for a more advanced = successor to TeX.

  Hans Aberg

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