RE: TeX <-> Unicode mapping

[Caolan McNamara <Caolan.McNamara@ul.ie>]

On 10-Oct-99 Markus Kuhn wrote:
>For your enjoyment, here comes a UTF-8 plaintext file showing the
>relationship between TeX characters and Unicode. It also shows a number
>of plain-TeX characters missing in Unicode 3.0, namely the long arrows,
>the epsilon variant, some of the n-ary operators, and the dot-less j.
>

On a related topic what is TeX's support for unicode and utf etc ? for
instance im involved in a microsoft word converter library project for
linux, and in a conversion to html I can use utf-8 easily to handle the 
native word unicode support, but I was thinking of a word to TeX converter 
as well, but as far as a quick check I did shows TeX doesnt have a standard
system to handle arbitrary language characters. Am i right here ?

Another query I have is to do with window's wonderful wingding font, is there a 
nice table hiding somewhere to map this to unicode chars, or are they completely
arbitrary drawings (what I suspect) that do not exist anywhere else in the known
universe, in which case for the html conversion I can just give up and spit out 
graphics in their place.

The final thing that bothers me is the windows symbol font, surely I can map 
these chars to unicode chars ?, in the ftp.unicode.org site I cant find a 
premade mapping table, am i missing something here ?

C.

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