From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:11:50 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Message-ID: <b28d999f4d005fbed20e0e756a1dd12c@ladd.quanstro.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110625150327.GA425@polynum.com>
References: <20110616121700.GA9131@polynum.com>
	<9556bc097d90b774c37c16af5a7c20eb@brasstown.quanstro.net>
	<20110619163458.GA424@polynum.com>
	<3c7e401c771bdd0d9bd8950ceb60eb9e@ladd.quanstro.net>
	<20110620111845.GA540@polynum.com>
	<76aac2169637c7af09dcd0b368aa0c7a@ladd.quanstro.net>
	<20110621105626.GA536@polynum.com> <iu357j$o3k$1@dough.gmane.org>
	<20110625065017.GA638@polynum.com>
	<522e1e2a38aa18c291305563d362abfe@ladd.quanstro.net>
	<20110625150327.GA425@polynum.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [9fans] [RFC] fonts and unicode/utf [TeX]
Topicbox-Message-UUID: f5b7e0c4-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

On Sat Jun 25 11:01:38 EDT 2011, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 08:19:40AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> I mean the .tex file. The font files as seen by TeX are only the metrics
> tfm, and they are binaries.

so are you planning on hiding this conversion within the tex
executable or some shell script fronting the executable?
that would work.  but letting ancient and deprecated
latin1 escape into editors, &c. would be a mistake.

- erik