On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 08:19:40AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > 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?
I mean the .tex file. The font files as seen by TeX are only the metrics
tfm, and they are binaries.
Since TeX is "8 bits", the tex file must have characters encoded in 8
bits, with the not control positions of the first half being, after
perhaps mapping defined at compile time (can be remapped at user level
but with apparently "strange" macro commands), conforming to ASCII---
used as litterals but also for the primitives.
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