Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:02:46 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id iARI2puu031269 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:02:51 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.176]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iARHwa4i005906; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:58:36 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C4D4AB.4C6E2700" 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 iAQN0etX004334; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:58:15 +0100 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 178944 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:58:15 +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 (8.12.7/8.12.7/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id iARHwEYr019379 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:58:14 +0100 Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id iARHwJ4i005839 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:58:20 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 29320 invoked by uid 65534); 27 Nov 2004 17:58:18 -0000 Received: from p5480177E.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO maus.home) (84.128.23.126) by mail.gmx.net (mp005) with SMTP; 27 Nov 2004 18:58:18 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Nov 2004 18:02:46.0770 (UTC) FILETIME=[4CE3A520:01C4D4AB] User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang at proteosys.com X-Authenticated: #1860478 X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: 0 () x-spam-auto-whitelist: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Unicode/UTF-8 (La)TeX Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:58:29 +0100 Message-ID: A<200411271858.29386.m.g.n@gmx.de> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Unicode/UTF-8 (La)TeX Thread-Index: AcTUq00OrPvIjDTNTmWvoTYae3oLrg== From: "Michael Niedermair" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4829 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C4D4AB.4C6E2700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > 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. ExTeX use internal UTF-32! by Michael ------_=_NextPart_001_01C4D4AB.4C6E2700 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Unicode/UTF-8 (La)TeX

> 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.

ExTeX use internal UTF-32!

by
Michael

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