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 o1GMJ4BU019732 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:19:05 +0100 Received: (qmail 18448 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2010 22:18:59 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2010 22:18:58 -0000 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay2.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.210.211] by mx0.gmx.net (mx002) with SMTP; 16 Feb 2010 23:18:58 +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 o1GMGBLV025827 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:16:11 +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 o1GJsAvv024695; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:16:03 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 387883 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:16:03 +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 o1GMG3jk001780 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:16:03 +0100 Received: from mail-fx0-f215.google.com (mail-fx0-f215.google.com [209.85.220.215]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1GMFxUg025749 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:16:03 +0100 Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so6928127fxm.8 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:15:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.87.62.39 with SMTP id p39mr12767073fgk.9.1266358559492; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:15:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.1.102? (114-30-119-136.ip.adam.com.au [114.30.119.136]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 12sm12805524fgg.27.2010.02.16.14.15.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:15:58 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) References: <4B727378.8060704@morningstar2.co.uk>, <4B729944.5050308@residenset.net> , <4B72B36E.6010401@morningstar2.co.uk> <4B730157.5060605@morningstar2.co.uk> <4B7AA947.2040805@elzevir.fr> <4B7AAC09.9040407@morningstar2.co.uk> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) X-Spam-Whitelist: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id o1GMG3jk001781 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:45:49 +1030 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Will Robertson Subject: Re: LaTeX3 8-bit only? To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: <4B7AAC09.9040407@morningstar2.co.uk> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (Mail was not recognized as spam); Detail=5D7Q89H36p77e5KAPs1l6v/Sb97LojnDtMgfETrECMLUO9erHzOJe+OynZRhvlGqvET/J 3dm2vHWnQHIuidpgLhS+P7NNYz+zyHLMY9yCwGeoj9BiPgazSVDQFsQIW5ndJCbWUGBVgH7296LE WpM6A==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: 6291 On 17/02/2010, at 1:00 AM, Joseph Wright wrote: > My understanding was that the "native" encoding, at least for XeTeX, was UTF-8. I'm not aware of any encoding difficulties in XeTeX. For example, one can write \let\a=𝔄 [\a] and receive the log message Missing character: There is no character number "1D504 in font ... IIRC, at one stage XeTeX was restricted to UTF-16 input chars (or at least that \char and friends were restricted to 16 bits), but that changed when JK realised that we needed full UTF-32 support for maths. -- Will