Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:36:09 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id iARHaDuu031025 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:36:14 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.176]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iARHV2bY002529; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:31:02 +0100 (MET) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C4D4A7.948B4A80" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.176]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.7/8.12.7/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id iAQN0esv004334; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:30:13 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 178873 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:30:12 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.7/8.12.7/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id iARHUCYr018693 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:30:12 +0100 Received: from lotus.glocalnet.net (mail2.glocalnet.net [213.163.128.201]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iARHUF4i029791 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:30:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from [62.127.86.132] (62.127.86.132) by lotus.glocalnet.net (7.1.016.1) (authenticated as haberg@glocalnet.net) id 4173A2C3010BAD6B; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:30:14 +0100 Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Nov 2004 17:36:09.0916 (UTC) FILETIME=[95170FC0:01C4D4A7] User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.6 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang at proteosys.com X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: 0 () Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Unicode/UTF-8 (La)TeX Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:30:02 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Unicode/UTF-8 (La)TeX Thread-Index: AcTUp5U6VAxNjqSdS26F1DDu/pKZ1g== From: "Hans Aberg" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4828 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C4D4A7.948B4A80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable There is an interesting "UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ" at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html It looks as though two strong Unicode encoding candidates for TeX/LaTeX = are the UTF-8 and UTF-32. The UTF-32 encoding might be better to used = internally for performance and programming convenience reasons. The UTF-8 encoding = is better to work with as an extension of ASCII. So one might make a TeX version that say uses UTF-32 internally, and UTF-8 and UTF-32 = externally. Hans Aberg ------_=_NextPart_001_01C4D4A7.948B4A80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Unicode/UTF-8 (La)TeX

There is an interesting "UTF-8 and Unicode = FAQ" at
    http://www.cl.cam.ac= .uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
It looks as though two strong Unicode encoding = candidates for TeX/LaTeX are
the UTF-8 and UTF-32. The UTF-32 encoding might be = better to used internally
for performance and programming convenience reasons. = The UTF-8 encoding is
better to work with as an extension of ASCII. So one = might make a TeX
version that say uses UTF-32 internally, and UTF-8 = and UTF-32 externally.

  Hans Aberg

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