Helge Hafting wrote:
Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
How difficult would it be to support unicode in maths?
In 1.5 forget about it. In 1.6 that would require a lot of work I
guess.
This wasn't any generic unicode character, it was a delta which is
normally used in math. The only strange thing about it was that it
was in unicode rather than spelled out \delta. Possibly pasted from
somewhere else?
I guess so, yes.
Would it be easier to support a subset of unicode in math - i.e. only
symbols that we already offer but which also exists in the form of
unicode characters? I guess that will be a common case for unicode in
math.
That would be the plan yes.
A simple table with unicode characters and their equivalent
math commands (\alpha, \beta, and so on) could translate any
non-ascii the users somehow manages to bring into mathed.
Things are more complicated when you speak in terms of _current_ LyX
code :-)
Basically, mathed does not use unicode but sepecial 8-bit codepoints
reflecting their associate modern font symbol codepoints.
Abdel.
