Re: Russia (cyrillic letters)

[Mikael Persson <mickep@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:40:08 +0000, Adam Lindsay <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk> wrote:
> Mikael Persson said this at Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:38:50 +0100:
> 
> >I also thought more about the utf. Is there anyway, now, to use utf8
> >encoding of the file, and somehow (from enco-uc.tex or how it would
> >work) get the russian letters (that is for example \uchar4{"11} to be
> >\cyrillicB, as it is written in enco-uc.tex and then from that get the
> >right letter)?
> 
> Yeah, there is a way to use UTF-8 input, but it's not ready for Cyrillic
> quite yet--It'll take some work (from you? :D ) to get it going.
> 
> UTF-8 input depends on the unic-* files. The Cyrillic vector, unic-
> 004.tex, hasn't been done yet. All it takes is putting the named glyphs
> (that you saw in enco-uc, for example) in the right order, using unic-
> 001.tex as a model.
> 
> Interested? I can get you started if you are...
> 
> adam

Hello Adam,

Yes, I am intrested in doing this, please get me started :) I read
unic-001.tex, and I more or less understand the pattern, however there
must be more things to change then just adidng a unic-004.tex file
with similar entries for the cyrillic letters?

/Micke P