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- From: muehlenw@samhh.hanse.de (Stefan A. Muehlenweg)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: Inputting accented characters (postpositive accents)
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 21:53:32 MEZ
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- mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay) writes:
-
- > I may be the only user of multi-lingual text who is constantly forced
- > to migrate among hardware platforms of differing capabilities, but
- > I rather doubt it. ...
- >
- No, you're not! In our department I've to manage different kind of
- systems (as UNIX---RS/6000, Sparc, Apollo---, VAX/VMS, PC--MSDOS, ATARI TOS...)
- and there are on most machines TeX-Installations.
- Very often there is TeX code to migrate from one system to another,
- and so I teach all users here to use *ONLY* 7bit TeX-inputs, otherwise
- the files need to be converted each time they will be ported to another
- system.
- And the german language uses \"a \"o \"u \"A \"O \"U \ss{} very often.
-
- So 8bit input is very difficult, but a 16bit standard would be the best
- in future (*WHEN* in future ???? ).
-
- Stefan
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