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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:19:40 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] [RFC] fonts and unicode/utf [TeX]
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> So for now, TeX is kept 8 bits. I make no assumption for the encoding
> (and user has to feed "8 bits encoding" to TeX; ASCII users have nothing
> to change; others, if they want to use directly another 8 bits encoding
> (ex.: directly accented letters latin1 code) have to tcs(1) the file
> first.

i am not clear on what "the file" means in this context.  do you mean
the .tex input file or font files?

- erik