> So for now, TeX is kept 8 bits. I make no assumption for the encoding > (and user has to feed "8 bits encoding" to TeX; ASCII users have nothing > to change; others, if they want to use directly another 8 bits encoding > (ex.: directly accented letters latin1 code) have to tcs(1) the file > first.
i am not clear on what "the file" means in this context. do you mean the .tex input file or font files? - erik
