Ulrike Fischer <[log in to unmask]> writes: > Am Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:00:10 +0100 schrieb David Kastrup: > >>> I'm sorry but I disagree on this point. I don't think it is urgent to >>> adjust the real inputenc. LuaTeX is still in early beta, so it should >>> be used only by somehow experienced users, or at least users aware of >>> what they are doing.. Such users should be able to understand that >>> they should either encode their source in utf-8 (and don't load any >>> inputenc) or load luainputenc. > >> I disagree. The development or rather the update cycle of LaTeX is so >> slow that we don't want it to impede progress. > > > Like Manual I don't think that it is a good idea to load > xetexinputenc or luatexinputenc (or whatever the packages are > called) through inputenc. This packages are currently at best in the > beta-stadium. They haven't been tested much, the problem with > auxiliary files with non-ascii chars generated by the engine hasn't > been solved yet. > > inputenc and fontenc are base packages. They shouldn't load > experimental packages which can change from one day to the next and > where it isn't clear that they will stay. When the alternative is that they will just break, I don't see the advantage. -- David Kastrup