[luatex] setting lccode "automatically"

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu Jun 23 13:34:55 CEST 2011


On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:27:33PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Where do you want these algorithms actually? I think for case
> > conversion user should just ignore \lowercase etc. and use a
> > (to-be-written) Lua wrapper to ICU 
> 
> Well, if someone wants to write a lua wrapper for ICU and then
> use a lua replacement for \uppercase and \lowercase, that is fine.
> Not me though, as I do not want luatex to be dependent on libICU.

No one in his right mind wants his code to be dependant on libICU, even
a mammoth like LibreOffice are looking for ways to get rid of such
dependency.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
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