Re: Design documents - strings and encodings

[Asger Alstrup Nielsen]

[T1 encoding]
> Except that there are a lot of characters and accents at the places
> where latin1 places control characters.

I suspect that those "control characters" are only used when fonts are encoded.
Can LaTeX accept a file with characters and accents at those control
characters?

> What do you mean about T1? Is it the use of accents? Or the use of
> latex macros for some characters? I suspect that you mix output
> encoding and input encoding.

Ok:  

LaTeX encoding is the variable width 7-bit encoding, where all accented
characters need several characters.

T1 is the LaTeX encoding, except that the glyphs from A0-FF can be represented
as a single character.  T1 corresponds closely to what I think we export into
LaTeX file in LyX v1.0, when the encoding is ISO8859-1.  So, T1 in the new
scheme should be the encoding that is used to export LaTeX files.
Notice that LyX itself will not necessarily read LaTeX files in T1 encoding. 
That is all up to reLyX.

Clear?

Greets,

Asger