Re: utf (8)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 01:44 PM 12/5/2002 +0100, you wrote:

>Quick but nasty question from me:
>
>What do we do when we run out of internal macro names in the hash?
>There are some 100.000-something chars defined in Unicode 3.2, much
>more then the available hash space in TeX.

there are several methods:

(1) we don't use a hash, just a fast expandable ifcase, so theoretically 
it's only a few hundred entries

(2) optionally (just made it) one can expand such a vector into hashed 
values, but this is only interestign when one know what one deals with

(3) just played with an unicode font, and i can even imagine an 
auto-split-into ranges and auto fontswitch (kind of fun to try that), i.e.: 
a call to a glyph expands into a call to fontname-range + char [of course 
this breaks hyphenation, but for a lot of languages this is not an issue]

also,

(4) we have Taco to extend tex to 32 bits -)

Hans
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