On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 06:34:58PM +0200, tlaronde wrote:
>
> There is a reason here: for now, TeX is 8 bits and that's all. So, if
> allowing to use, at least, all of the 8 bits means something, it shall
> be latin1.
To be more accurate: TeX is 8 bits, and wants ASCII for the first
semi-range.
The Computer Modern are ASCII (plus, in control positions, ligatures and
so on).
The PostScript standard fonts have all latin1.
Hence, by default, the fonts built from the PostScript core fonts shall
be with a latin1 encoding, since this is the best that can be done, with
the glyphes in the font on one side, and the 8 bits capabilities of TeX
on the other.
Other encoding for TeX is possible too (in a 256 glyphes limit), but by
default I will provide latin1 for the fonts built from Adobe afm.
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