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Hi Javier,
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<div class="">On Mar 24, 2016, at 5:59 PM, Javier Bezos <<a href="mailto:jbezosl@gmail.com" class="">jbezosl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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XeLaTeX is Unicode aware and can handle Unicode strings. Therefore, I fail to see<br class="">
why you are doing things this way. The LGR font encoding is an ancient hack that<br class="">
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Of course, in Unicode engines the default captions section<br class="">
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<div>I think that it is absolutely correct that you build in continuing support</div>
<div>for old encodings that may no longer be used with new documents.</div>
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<div>The existence of old documents using such encodings certainly</div>
<div>warrants this — especially in the case of archives that process</div>
<div>old (La)TeX sources to create PDFs on the fly.</div>
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<div>It is quite possible that in future these will be required to conform</div>
<div>to modern standards, rather than just reproduce exactly what those</div>
<div>sources did in past decades. Then there is the issue of old documents</div>
<div>being aggregated with newer ones, for “Collected Works”-like publications.</div>
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<div>It is quite wrong to say that because we now have newer, better methods</div>
<div>that those older methods should be discarded entirely.</div>
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<div>I’m facing exactly this problem, adapting pdfx.sty to be able to translate</div>
<div>Metadata provided in old encodings: KOI8-R, LGR, OT6 etc. </div>
<div>automatically into UTF-8, because the latter is required by XMP for</div>
<div>requirements to satisfy PDF/A, PDF/X and PDF/E standards.</div>
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Keep up the good work.</div>
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<div class="">Cheers,</div>
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