Jungshik Shin wrote on 2003-03-12 02:02 UTC: > Markus Kuhn wrote: > > >Frank Mittelbach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has posted on > >2003-01-07 on [EMAIL PROTECTED] the beginnings of a far more > >lightweight UTF-8 support for LaTeX within the inputenc framework, which > >will hopefully find its way into the next release: > > > > http://www.latex-project.org/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=latex%2F3480 > > > I'm not sure how far LaTeX can get stretched to support Unicode.
There is an urgend need for European LaTeX users to have just very lightweight support of all the ISO 8859-* keys that they have on their keyboards. That is the inputenc UTF-8 extension I was talking about. It will not add any characters that aren't already reachable via one of the other encodings that inputenc supports, because the way UTF-8 has to be decoded in TeX is rather memory hungry and therefore does not scale well to thousands of characters. We are talking about less than 300-400 UTF-8 characters here. > It appears > that Lambda based on Omega( http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au:8080) > is one of better ways Yes. If you want to feed in more than roughtly the ISO 8859 subset of UTF-8, then don't use LaTeX. Many people want to move from ISO 8859 to UTF-8 without changing any of their other habits and practices, and both Omega and Dominiq Unruh's package are probabaly over-the-top for them. Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Lab, Univ of Cambridge, GB http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ | __oo_O..O_oo__ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
