From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15061 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Font/UTF-8 input question Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:31:00 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040428192805.01cf0e60@server-1> References: <408E518C.3000806@physik.fu-berlin.de> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083173603 6564 80.91.224.253 (28 Apr 2004 17:33:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed Apr 28 19:33:08 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BIsvj-00042K-00 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:33:07 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2453F10B66; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:29:12 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6849610B63 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:27:14 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i3SHTKKn020049 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:29:20 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 6A3F023817; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:31:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDBD17B5A for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:31:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.1.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <408E518C.3000806@physik.fu-berlin.de> Original-References: <408E518C.3000806@physik.fu-berlin.de> X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040415, clamav-milter version 0.70i Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15061 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15061 At 14:26 27/04/2004, you wrote: >Hello, > >I'd like to use a Unicode font such as Linux Libertine [1]. Besides things >which should happen "automatically" like ligatures, I want to enter all >characters directly in the UTF-8 file (including those wierd characters). >I remember that there is some UTF-8 support in ConTeXt, but I don't >remember the details. Is it possible to simply enter a character such as >U+FB02 or do I have first to adapt both the input encoding and the font >encoding files? in prinicple regime utf should work for the input; characters are mapped onto their symbolic names so fonts should go ok with regards to unicode fonts: you need to create a 255 char variant (i.e. ttftoafm and alike); i'm sure that some of the open type font guru;s on this list can tell you how to proceed there Hans