Am Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:12:56 +0200 schrieb Ulrike Fischer:

Has nobody an opinion about this question? Imho it doesn't make much
sense to create a package for a single lthenc.dfu and so it should
be distribuated either together with inputenc or with babel-thai
(where lthenc.def resides).

 

> I have written an lthenc.dfu file to be able to use thai along with
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} (I attach it and hope that is doesn't
> get lost). What is the best way to add it to the system? (I don't
> care about my name in the file. If if is simply added to the base
> distribution like other dfu-files that's fine for me.)
> 
> Why trying out the dfu I saw that thai.ldf changes the catcodes of
> all non-ASCII-inputs and so breaks the catcode changes of inputenc.
> So the .dfu only works if inputenc is loaded after babel:
> 
> \documentclass[]{article}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> %\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} %doesn't work
> \usepackage[thai]{babel}
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> \begin{document}
> ภาษาไทย 
> \end{document}
> 
> (I wrote the maintainer about the catcodes some days ago but this
> get an answer yet).


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Ulrike Fischer 
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