From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17170 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: The Thanh Han Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: does context support vietnamese? Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:09:29 +0700 Message-ID: <20041119060929.GA30446@monty> References: <20041118013604.GA695@monty> <20041118014517.3394@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: The Thanh Han , mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100913752 14559 80.91.229.6 (20 Nov 2004 01:22:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users , Hans Hagen Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Nov 20 02:22:20 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CVJxE-0007DO-00 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:22:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A6881279E; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:22:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24342-03; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:22:14 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA471278F; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:22:14 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD8F1278F for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:22:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24417-01 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:22:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (unknown [213.165.64.20]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id C878B12788 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:22:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (qmail 27568 invoked by uid 65534); 20 Nov 2004 01:22:11 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (EHLO monty) (203.210.221.201) by mail.gmx.net (mp022) with SMTP; 20 Nov 2004 02:22:11 +0100 X-Authenticated: #13779288 Original-Received: from thanh by monty with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CV1xj-0008IF-00; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:09:39 +0700 Original-To: Adam Lindsay Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041118014517.3394@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17170 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17170 On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:45:17AM +0000, Adam Lindsay wrote: > The Thanh Han said this at Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:36:05 +0700: > > >Hi Adam, > > > >ET5 was the first proposed font encoding for vietnamese; then it was > >renamed to X5 with a few modifications. T5 is a minor update -- it's > >heavily based on X5 but I don't remember what has been changed. > > Thanks. The questions now seem to be, is there a significant amount of > fonts/support files/work that relied on x5 that needs to be supported? > Because I just discovered that there were some serious bugs in the > ConTeXt interpretation of the x5 encoding, and that any regular user > would have demanded that something be changed! afaik nobody has used vietnamese with context yet, so just forget backward compability and do what is needed. Thanh