Re: Context & Vietnamese UTF-8

[VnPenguin <vnpenguin@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:36:24 +0000, Adam Lindsay <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi there.

Hi,
 
> I've worked on a bit of Unicode (output) for ConTeXt recently, and I
> noticed that Vietnamese needs a little bit more work. There's already
> viscii input and x5 encoding output (apparently) working in ConTeXt.

With current vnTeX (vntex.sf.net), we can use viscii, tcvn, vps and
unicode (utf8) for input encoding.
 
> As I understand it, UTF-8 support will then require an update to
> ConTeXt's unic-* files (giving named glyphs for input) and then a slight
> update to the enco-x5 file. I guess what's really needed are canonical
> internal names (like 'ygrave' or 'ohornhook') for ConTeXt's use.
> 
> Don't be afraid: it's not difficult, just a bit tedious. So I should ask,
> Mr Penguin, how are you with sed, Perl, or Ruby?

I could use Perl and sed (for simple jobs) without problem :)
 
> Also, do you have any good references for character tables for the
> encoding(s?) that VnTeX uses? I don't have it installed on my machine (yet).

You can download vnTeX from http://vntex.sourceforge.net

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