Re: Re: does context support vietnamese?

[h h extern <pragma@wxs.nl>]

The Thanh Han wrote:
> 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.

so we can drop x5 and go for t5 (i.e. lm only needs to support t5)

thanh: adam got most font stuff working like a charm! i'll add things to the 
distribution

Hans

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