Re: (lua?)latex module ( The ConTeXt book)

[luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 3-4-2010 6:44, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>
>> Am 03.04.10 17:11, schrieb luigi scarso:
>>>>
>>>> You said encodings are gone in mkiv but this isn't true,
>>>
>>> id est ?
>>
>> \enableregime[latin1]
>> \starttext
>> AOUÄÖÜ
>> \stoptext
acceptable in mkii
horror in mkiv

>>
>> When encodins are really gone this should fail with mkiv
>> but what you get as output is 'AOUÄÖU' what means encodings
>> aren't gone. It's recommended to use UTF-8 encoded input
>> but there is nothing which prevents you from using another one.
or invent one by myself too --why not ?

> indeed and there is no reason to drop backward compatibility in that respect
yes yes , of course backward comp.
But, apart this (which is important etc etc etc) any other issue ?
I mean: I'm typesetting international pricelist from 7 years, it would
be impossible to manage thing without unicode and context.
If one submit a file in a known (iconv --list) encoding I convert it
in unicode utf  *before* and then process with mkiv.
And iconv can be eventually link in lua, by a dynamic linking --- not
need for peek and poke sources.
Or it can be done in pure lua.
Am I wrong ?
Anyway I do the rules --- only one input encoding: unicode utf-8 .
Sorry for the others.
>
> of course font (and math) encodings are completely gone
unicode input  & uncode fonts are the news --- you typeset what you see
I understand that ``correct'' is the right way
but please
“correct” is better (the perfect way)
(I mean
U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK correct U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
)
-- 
luigi
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