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Apostolos Syropoulos <[log in to unmask]>
Sun, 11 Feb 2001 19:04:53 +0200
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On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> I would like to suggest UTF8. First of all, they would also be usable with
> Omega, and second, parsing UTF8 is easier than parsing LaTeX internal
> character representation (LICR?).

I agree with you. TeX imposes, in my opinion, arbitrary limitation that
have no place in a world of super fast PCs with virtually unlimited
memory compared to the machines of the seventies. The future is Omega
or any Unicode based typesetting engine capable to handle OpenType
fonts and able to generate PDF.

A.S.

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