Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:57:01 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gB8EuxTp011484 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:57:00 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gB8Eqjc3010859; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:52:45 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C29ECA.10121C80" 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 gB87xLWY004910; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:47:25 +0100 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 5156 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:47:25 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 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 gB8ElPTk006391 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:47:25 +0100 Received: from mercury.open.ac.uk (mercury.open.ac.uk [137.108.128.150]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gB8EqbxK021724 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:52:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from fell.open.ac.uk by mercury.open.ac.uk via SMTP Local (Mailer 3.1) with ESMTP; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 14:52:35 +0000 Received: (from car2@localhost) by fell.open.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) id OAA22456; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 14:52:28 GMT In-Reply-To: References: Return-Path: X-Mailer: VM 6.76 under Emacs 20.7.1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Dec 2002 14:57:01.0907 (UTC) FILETIME=[109C8230:01C29ECA] X-Authentication-Warning: fell.open.ac.uk: car2 set sender to car2@fell.open.ac.uk using -f X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.11 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) X-Spam-Score: -1.2 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,X_AUTH_WARNING Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: latex/3480: Support for UTF-8 missing in inputenc.sty Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:52:27 +0100 Message-ID: A<15859.23723.517474.334884@fell.open.ac.uk> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: latex/3480: Support for UTF-8 missing in inputenc.sty Thread-Index: AcKeyhDHS0N7NPSeTDOEVNcHur0qRw== From: "Chris Rowley" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4383 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C29ECA.10121C80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > apostoulos syropoulos writes: > > > Don't we need support for UCS-2 encoded files? And what about > > Unicode surrogates (i.e., characters that consist of four octets)? > > the real rationale for adding support of ucs-8 to latex2e is its > appearance as default encoding in at least one linux distribution. > > i don't believe there's justification for "main line" provision for > all possible unicode encodings in latex: omega is designed for that > sort of thing, and shows every sign of performing. it would be nice > to do all of them in latex, but it's not the sort of thing tex is good > at, in bulk (imho at least). > Also, TeX itself cannot read all of UCS-2. chris ------_=_NextPart_001_01C29ECA.10121C80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: latex/3480: Support for UTF-8 missing in = inputenc.sty

> apostoulos syropoulos writes:
>
> > Don't we need support for UCS-2 encoded = files? And what about
> > Unicode surrogates (i.e., characters that = consist of four octets)?
>
> the real rationale for adding support of ucs-8 = to latex2e is its
> appearance as default encoding in at least one = linux distribution.
>
> i don't believe there's justification for = "main line" provision for
> all possible unicode encodings in latex: omega = is designed for that
> sort of thing, and shows every sign of = performing.  it would be nice
> to do all of them in latex, but it's not the = sort of thing tex is good
> at, in bulk (imho at least).
>

Also, TeX itself cannot read all of UCS-2.


chris

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