Re: Linux Distros w/o UTF-8 Locales

[Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Simos Xenitellis <simos74@xxxxxxx> skreiv Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:55:24 +0000

> Some difficult tasks include:
> 1. LaTeX by design uses 8-bit characters and appears difficult to
> work-around.
> There is a utf8 package that supports a list of languages, however it's
> not full Unicode support. Status of Omega?

Note that this is not an argument for ISO-8859-x and against UTF-8.
LaTeX should work *as well* with

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

as with

\usepackage[latinx]{inputenc}

for Latin-x languages. I've been using UTF-8 with LaTeX (with mostly
Latin-1 repertoire documents) for some time now, and haven't had any
problems.

The problems occurs with non-Western scripts, which (La)TeX were not
designed to handle.

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Karl Ove Hufthammer

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