I think you are right. Surely the reason most of us care about these issues is that we are working in other languages, not just English. I began using XeTeX specifically because of how it handles multiple languages. My view is terribly simple: the world is far too interesting a place to be restricted to ASCII!
Sent from my iPhone On 3 Nov, 2011, at 21:53, "Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)" <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Danyll Wills wrote: > >> Phil, I use XeLaTeX for Chinese, Japanese and Mongolian. I have watched the >> discussion over the past few days and am 100 per cent behind you. I started >> my programming life in the early '80s using 8086 Assembly language. Nothing >> irritates me more than the idea that ASCII is the only way to go. Your >> latest explanation was spot on! Well done. >> >> /Danyll > > Thank you, Danyll. Although there are times when I feel like > a lone prophet crying in the desert, I genuinely believe > that people such as Heiko, Ross, Arthur et al are actually on > our side : they too understand the need for people to be able > to mark-up and typeset in any of the world's languages, and have > probably done more than most to make this possible (and are still > doing so). > > Yet there /are/ lacunæ, and when they are identified (such > as the lack of support for arbitrary Unicode characters in the first > parameter to \hyperlink and \hypertarget), then surely it is > better to accept that work still needs to be done, rather than > attempt to sweep the problem under the carpet by saying "Don't > use non-ASCII characters in the link" without adding "until this > limitation can be overcome", or by stating that "Letters and digits > are safe" without clarifying that by "letter" the author is referring > solely to a very restricted set of "letters" that almost certainly > excludes such common letters as "ł" or "ę", "ư" or "ẻ". > > ** Phil. > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
