Re: Design documents - strings and encodings

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

>>>>> "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> 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.

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

We might need it (and the other TeX fonts encoding) if we use real TeX
fonts (either PK or PS Type1) for display. So it might be useful to
support it, but I do not know much about that.

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

Asger> That's the encoding I'm referring to.

Well, it would just be LaTeX+latin1, where the other characters would
be obtained with LaTeX accent commands or LaTeX macros (\l, \L,
although I'm not sure whether those are part of latin1 or not).

JMarc