>>>>> "Asger" == Asger Ottar Alstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Asger> First step: (Georg volunteered :-) Asger> - Write UCS4 streams which are converted to UTF-8 by magic Asger> - So the LaTeX file is in UTF-8 encoding I do not understand the concern about the difficulty of doing non-utf8. Would is really by difficult with iconv to have our streams that do utf8 also do latin1 if we ask them too? The only problem would then to know what to do when the character is not available. Then we would need a unicode<->latex translator for which we can probably find good tables in recode source. I really do not see how this would complicate the lyx core, and why the need to go utf8 only. Beware of aestetics... I agree with the first steps, though. Asger> Next steps: - Fix compression problems What's that? Asger> - If there are problems with LaTeX support for UTF-8, we will Asger> work to fix that in LaTeX camp LyX 1.5 will need to work with the latex that exists now, not the onw that will exist in 3 years (especially since work on LaTeX2e is stalled). Asger> (or use workaround hacks in LyX) That would be a very sad thing. The use of unicode is supposed to get us rid of all these hacks. Asger> - If you need a LaTeX file in something else than UTF-8, then Asger> use an external converter (which LyX can automatically invoke) This will not work. JMarc
