From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17078 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: VnPenguin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context & Vietnamese UTF-8 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:20:21 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20041116123624.13774@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: VnPenguin , mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100614842 10985 80.91.229.6 (16 Nov 2004 14:20:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:20:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Nov 16 15:20:31 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CU4C7-0008Vz-00 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:20:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FC7127AE; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:20:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15944-03; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:20:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6531279F; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:20:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A9BC1279F for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:20:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15863-05 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:20:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (unknown [64.233.170.202]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 409E91279E for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:20:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r35so700474rna for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:20:21 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=LKCYqUsZ/vh5cozTm78s5qBPlR0HZfuXcnqJYGIHO1pTuBNbvZxJip8ZrSa4w1SxZk0N17JtM4PSAbf/37o0brgYoTQC77n7S9JxTEDnec7CAJrrVz49/VfY8xlsk6epv0uX3ciZeU+NYEXkOlSmoLdsP8Xjtwzv4qa6IfdCsSI= Original-Received: by 10.38.152.69 with SMTP id z69mr135913rnd; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:20:21 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.38.67.68 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:20:21 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Adam Lindsay In-Reply-To: <20041116123624.13774@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> X-Virus-Scanned: by 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-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17078 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17078 On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:36:24 +0000, Adam Lindsay 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 Regards, -- http://vnoss.org/forum/