From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21567 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Basic question on Unicode and ConTeXt Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:58:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: <6faad9f005071511431a61fa1f@mail.gmail.com> <42DAB916.6000000@wxs.nl> <6faad9f005071813263c3109a1@mail.gmail.com> <42DC250C.8010500@wxs.nl> <6faad9f005071816115514e6ba@mail.gmail.com> <42DCB49D.5020209@wxs.nl> <42DEB5AC.8000806@creutzig.de> <6faad9f005072017524f914147@mail.gmail.com> <42E0D8C0.2080700@creutzig.de> <6faad9f005072215202d47794@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122307362 25419 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2005 16:02:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:02:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jul 25 18:02:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx5Oe-0007wm-D5 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:01:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C3E1279F; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:01:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04129-01; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:01:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374271279E; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:58:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4CD61279E for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:58:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03897-05-3 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:58:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 540701279A for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:58:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from 167.59.77.83.cust.bluewin.ch [83.77.59.167] (helo=[10.128.9.3]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwh2-1Dx5LE0Nyc-0001DJ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:58:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: <6faad9f005072215202d47794@mail.gmail.com> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:033f42bdb3cd4a3c9b0966e414a370c7 X-Virus-Scanned: 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21567 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21567 Am 2005-07-23 um 00:20 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > I'm still slighlty confused by the encoding files (texnansi, ec,..., > in one case iso-8859-7 is used). Does it mean that it is impossible > (or at least very complex or slow) to access more than 256 characters > from a single font at once? TeX as an old 8bit system isn't able to handle more than 256 chars =20 per font. Only more modern siblings (like Omega/Aleph) are able to handle =20 "Unicode size" fonts by itself. Gr=FC=DFlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net