Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Sun, 8 Dec 2002 11:46:37 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gB8AkZTp011048 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 11:46:36 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C29EA7.1511A480" Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gB8AgWxK021540; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 11:42:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id gB87xLUe004910; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 11:37:19 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 5013 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 11:37:19 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id gB8AbJTk005404 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 11:37:19 +0100 Received: from wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk (IDENT:oPTpTeHQZlDH3W+s3iV/x/Ui3ESCZNPE@mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk [128.232.0.15]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gB8AgUxK021530 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 11:42:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from pallas.cl.cam.ac.uk ([128.232.8.88] helo=cl.cam.ac.uk ident=[r9/O6yoQQFepIPYyEI8bAAaOtZk7LLCn]) by wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 18KytK-00025b-00 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 08 Dec 2002 10:42:30 +0000 In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 08 Dec 2002 11:52:40 +0200. Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Dec 2002 10:46:37.0775 (UTC) FILETIME=[1587E5F0:01C29EA7] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.11 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) X-Spam-Score: -0.5 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: latex/3480: Support for UTF-8 missing in inputenc.sty Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 11:42:30 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: latex/3480: Support for UTF-8 missing in inputenc.sty Thread-Index: AcKepxWuO2/c1KSPRjqX7aYtpqQRKg== From: "Robin Fairbairns" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4382 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C29EA7.1511A480 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Dominique Unruh wrote: > > > > Don't we need support for UCS-2 encoded files? > > > > UCS-2 encoded TeX code is not feasible, since TeX assumes e.g. that = \ > > is a single byte, not a sequence. > > My question was rather tricky: I don't think people should bother > creating something that is already there (viz. Omega)... as i already said, the reason i want utf8 into latex (rather than into lambda-or-whatever-it-becomes) is is to deal with a problem we have *today*. i believe it's no more than a stopgap, but equally, i believe it's important. robin ------_=_NextPart_001_01C29EA7.1511A480 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: latex/3480: Support for UTF-8 missing in = inputenc.sty

> On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Dominique Unruh wrote:
>
> > > Don't we need support for UCS-2 = encoded files?
> >
> > UCS-2 encoded TeX code is not feasible, = since TeX assumes e.g. that \
> > is a single byte, not a sequence.
>
> My question was rather tricky: I don't think = people should bother
> creating something that is already there (viz. = Omega)...

as i already said, the reason i want utf8 into latex = (rather than
into lambda-or-whatever-it-becomes) is is to deal = with a problem we
have *today*.  i believe it's no more than a = stopgap, but equally, i
believe it's important.

robin

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