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 f1HIrYf03850 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:53:34 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1HIrYd20287 . for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:53:34 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09912.ED88CB00" 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 f1HIrYH23805 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:53:34 +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 TAA08302 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:53:33 +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 f1HIrXH23801 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:53:33 +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 <12.BEA0F479@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:53:21 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 489634 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:53:27 +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 TAA24637 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:53:26 +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 TAA58138 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:53:26 +0100 Received: from obelix.ee.duth.gr (pc-poseidon.ee.duth.gr [193.92.243.102]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1HIrQx03237 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:53:26 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (apostolo@localhost) by obelix.ee.duth.gr (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA05917 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:01:01 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: Return-Path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: LaTeX's internal char prepresentation (UTF8 or Unicode?) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 20:01:01 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Apostolos Syropoulos" 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: 3958 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09912.ED88CB00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Barbara Beeton wrote: > the unicode private area. but for latex (or any successor) to be > useful for the particular content for which tex was first developed, > this has to be taken into account. Yes and no. TeX and its successors have been used in many areas outside mathematics and one, I believe, should not care too much about mathematical symbols. A.S. **************************************************************** *Apostolos Syropoulos * *snail mail: 366, 28th October Str., GR-671 00 Xanthi, HELLAS * *email : apostolo@ocean1.ee.duth.gr * *phone num.: +30-(0)541-28704 * *home page : http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo * **************************************************************** ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09912.ED88CB00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: LaTeX's internal char prepresentation (UTF8 or = Unicode?)

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Barbara Beeton wrote:

> the unicode private area.  but for latex (or = any successor) to be
> useful for the particular content for which tex = was first developed,
> this has to be taken into account.

Yes and no. TeX and its successors have been used in = many areas
outside mathematics and one, I believe, should not = care too much
about mathematical symbols.
A.S.

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