On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 03:28 +0100, Danai SAE-HAN wrote: [ UTF-8 and TeX ] > There are packages like utf8x that are under development, but IMHO > that just takes too much time and we need a quick fix. UTF-8 has been > around for many years now.
Actually utff8x (or more appropriately ucs.sty) are no longer under development. At least I haven't heared of anyone responding to the original author's orphaning. IMO the real way forward does not come from clever macro programming but from extensions to the underlying TeX engine that support Unicode. In principle omega has been able to do that for quite some time. Unfortunately almost nobody knows how to use it. However, now there is XeTeX that has native Unicode (and OpenType) support. And the pdfTeX successor (luaTeX) will have similar abilities. > Two things are needed though: an updated Unicode.sfd file in > freetype1-tools (I just filed a bug report), and a DFSG-free font that > covers most scripts. Why do you want a single font? Given that one anyway needs some sort of mark up to switch hyphenation patterns for different languages, it is quite easy to integrate font switches there as well. cheerio ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
