Re: Q: Unicode available/planned for (La)TeX(3)?

[Yannis Haralambous <yannis@fluxus-virus.com>]

On 25/02/99 at 14:58, e.maryniak@pobox.com (Eric Maryniak) wrote:

> Hello (t)experts,
> 
> Please excuse me for possibly asking something wrong, incoherent or in a
> faq (although http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html gave no hits
> when queried on "Unicode").

Probably texfaq2html is revisionnistic ("Omega does not exist and has never
existed"). This is unfortunately quite common.

> 
> Q: is there a (La)TeX variant, style, documentclass option, ...?, where you
>    can use Unicode? Eg., I would imagine something like:
> 
>   \documentclass[10pt,twoside,a4paper,unicode]{article}
>   ...
>   On 2002-07-01 (July 1, 2002) all europeans from the 11 countries will
>   no longer have coins from their own currency but instead use the euro:
>   \u{20AC}.

\documentclass[10pt,twoside,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{omega}
...
On 2002-07-01 (July 1, 2002) all Europeans from the 11 countries will
no longer have coins from their own currency but instead use the euro:
^^^^20ac.

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This will be possible in next Omega release (I have just drawn the Euro symbols
a few weeks ago, in Tsukuba). You already have quite a few other symbols though.
And you can input your text directly in 16-bit Unicode (or UTF-8), so that you
don't need the ^^^^abcd convention.

Cheers

Yannis
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