Gour wrote: > Hi! > > With a great interest I'm reading discussion (from ml's archives, please > CC replies to this msessage) regarding LyX-1.5 which brings Unicode > support and I hope all the devs would be able to resolve everything and > bring new LyX successfully. > > > Today I read old copy of TUGBoat journal about XeTeX and its nice > features and I visited its web site. It looks that it is developing > nicely and it brings some very welcome features to standard TeX like > support for host-platform fonts - one of the weak points in the present > TeX installations - along with font access and it is getting > multi-platform support. > > However, I see that XeTeX uses utf-16 encoding internally, while > upcoming LyX, afaik, settled on utf-8, so I wonder what is the prospect > of future LyX-1.5 to handle XeTeX engine? > > > Sincerely, > Gour
Unicode is Unicode. I assume XeTex does not support all Unicode symbols but only these which could be represented by ONE 16 bit UTF-16 value (like the Mac?). I think this means "XeTeX uses utf-16 encoding internally". The files are stored in UTF-8 by lyx and should be readable by XeTex, without any unicode conversion programs (I could not imagine that XeTex couldn't read UTF-8 files). Peter
