> I don't despise XeTeX. Nor Unicode. And I will take Unicode as is. But I > will take TeX conventions as is too, since I'm working on TeX, and not > another formatting system; since these conventions are confined to the > ASCII subrange and only diverging from ASCII for the not glyph > positions. I still fail to see what's the big deal?
you can't have it both ways. you can't at the same time say tex is only defined for ascii, so utf-8 is a non sequitor, and at the same time put out a version of tex that takes latin1 input. the question is, should you use latin1 or utf-8. and i think the answer to this for plan 9 is pretty clear. use utf-8. a subset would be much better than latin1. the fact that there is a latin2 is proof that latin1 is misguided in ways that utf-8 does fix. - erik
