On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 11:42:38AM +0000, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
> Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 11:14:54AM +0000, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) > >wrote: > > > >>Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > >> > >>>If the OP needs funny stuff as labels > >> > >>Heiko, you are, I believe, a native German speaker > >>(please correct me if I am mistaken). In your > >>personal opinion, are the following "letters", > >>"arbitrary rubbisch", or "funny stuff" ? > >> > >> ä, ö, ü, ß, ??, ?? > > > >Then try > > ä, ö, ü, ß > > \bye > >in plain TeX. > > But we're not discussing Plain TeX, Heiko : this is the > XeTeX list, You are free to use plain XeTeX. > where the world has moved on, where UTF-8 is > the norm, and where ASCII is no more than a bad dream. > Are you really suggesting that in Plain XeTeX, > > ä, ö, ü, ß > \bye > > is anything other than a normal, everyday, document ? The mail header of your posting, send by the list server contains: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Then I must have received a quite abnormal mail out of norm? >From the last mails I found 477 lines with: "Content-Type: text/plain; charset="..." us-ascii: 237 UTF-8: 114 ISO-8859-1: 60 ISO-8859-2: 44 windows-1252: 21 windows-1256: 1 > I have just processed it here, and with > the addition of just two lines to change the default > font to a Unicode-compatible one, it generates exactly > what one would hope for and expect in the 21st century. Of course, also a font in T1, ... encoding can be used. Or the input encoding might differ from the font encoding by mapping via macros, ... Back to XeTeX: Byte string means that the string consists of bytes 0-255 (or 1..255). Can you write them with XeTeX in a file or use as destination names without using a different encoding? Yours sincerely Heiko Oberdiek -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
