Received: from mx0.gmx.net (mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]) by h1439878.stratoserver.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-2build1) with SMTP id o1BBGn7a016188 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:16:50 +0100 Received: (qmail 7966 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2010 11:16:44 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2010 11:16:43 -0000 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay2.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.210.211] by mx0.gmx.net (mx016) with SMTP; 11 Feb 2010 12:16:43 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1BBEqBZ032111 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:14:52 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o1AN16AH007776; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:14:50 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 382469 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:14:50 +0100 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o1BBEoSN012668 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:14:50 +0100 Received: from srv2.thewebhostserver.com (srv2.thewebhostserver.com [91.204.209.1]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1BBEeUK031915 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:14:43 +0100 Received: from [87.220.157.8] (helo=[192.168.1.128]) by srv2.thewebhostserver.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NfX0N-0001TG-FW for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:14:43 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4B727378.8060704@morningstar2.co.uk> <4B729944.5050308@residenset.net> <4B72B36E.6010401@morningstar2.co.uk> <4B730157.5060605@morningstar2.co.uk> <08431600-FDE2-4002-8A22-81CDD6AF300B@gmail.com> <68c491a61002101648k71454c31qff15673326a751e8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - srv2.thewebhostserver.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - listserv.uni-heidelberg.de X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - tex-tipografia.com Message-ID: <4B73E69F.9020305@tex-tipografia.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:14:39 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Javier Bezos Subject: Re: LaTeX3 8-bit only? To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: <68c491a61002101648k71454c31qff15673326a751e8@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (Mail was not recognized as spam); Detail=5D7Q89H36p6i75npGen84eVAEFK/syJmiNoEBJhgjYKpglu1TZLLw7xMZnJMXwBFK0zrU udEInhYyaWAzwtcf5K2pCdD+gZ2/z4PnBLkwizaSNzE6pT0gRePHe9G7VSBtUeLVxheN19cq+Z/3 nrhKQ==V1; X-Resent-By: Forwarder X-Resent-For: rainer.schoepf@gmx.net X-Resent-To: rainer@rainer-schoepf.de X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 85.214.41.38 Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6253 Martn: > Of course LaTeX will survive (probably all of us): But only as a > markup language for scientific articles. ... in English. If utf-8 is not handled natively but with active characters, a window to other languages is closed. Well, perhaps for Spanish or French, using the Latin script, is not too serious, but for Greek, Russian, and not to mention Arabic, things become a mess. Cheers Javier