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Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:37:25 -0400
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Subject: Re: inputenc for XeTeX and LuaTeX
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In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> ("Jörg Knappen"'s message of "Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:55:18 +0100")
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From: James Cloos <[log in to unmask]>
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>>>>> "Jörg" == Jörg Knappen <[log in to unmask]> writes:

Jörg> If there is no byte oreder mark, assume ASCII or some non-Unicode
Jörg> 8 bit encoding.

s/ASCII/UTF-8/ since utf-8 files should not have BOMs.

Otherwise, that is a good idea.

As for utf-8 or other, it may be useful to default to the character set
specified for the current $LOCALE.  Maybe. :-/

-JimC
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James Cloos <[log in to unmask]>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

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