https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798
--- Comment #32 from Tim Landscheidt <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #31) > OK, so the difference between mbox and text seems to have disappeared at some > point. The problem is now that not all character sets are supported. > Unfortunately LateX doesn't support full unicode. Perhaps we should consider > switching to XeTeX ? > http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=xetex > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX It doesn't make sense to address this before resolving bug 34038 first. It'd probably be relatively easy to convert some Unicode input into something LaTeX renders correctly, but then the initial incentive to use LaTeX as a format -- i. e. freely transfer text between wiki and LaTeX documents -- gets lost completely. I think the question should be directed the other way, lifted of any past efforts: If a British/French/Bengali/Arabian wiki author wants to enter a formula, what formats a) ease that work and b) are well established? If most authors will use a formula editor, the format choice can be guided mainly by technical considerations. If we expect most formulas to be entered manually by people unfamiliar with TeX, the latter would be an odd choice as its behaviour can be as surprising as MediaWiki's wiki parser and a format that would /define/ a formula instead of being /commands/ to a typesetter would clearly be preferable. Even a change to use XeTeX should IMHO be reflected by the use of a new tag ("<math-xe>" or something similar), so that we don't cause more headaches than neccessary. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
