Re: Design documents - strings and encodings

[Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen]

> No. T1 is an output encoding, that is the encoding of the font used in
> the dvi file. This has nothing to do with the input encoding, which is
> the encoding that LaTeX reads, in order to translate internally to its
> own 7bit format.
> 
> LaTeX will *never* have to read a file in T1 encoding. This does not
> make sense.

Fair enough.  Then I misnamed the encoding.  We will not need T1 encoding
for anything then.

What is the encoding called that will accept all ISO-8859-1, and at
the same time support the multiple character accented characters?

That's the encoding I'm referring to.

Greets,

Asger