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

[Berthold Horn <bkph@ai.mit.edu>]

At 18:13 1999-02-25 +0000, you wrote:

>> The trouble with this is that TeX fonts can only hold 256 characters,
>> while unicode is almost infinite.

>Worse than that is that unicode is not a font encoding (however big an
>actual font may be one day).

Although that is how it is being used in Windows and in the next Mac OS.

Which may not please the purists, but is a real boon for people who want
to get on with it...

Regards, Berthold.


Berthold K.P. Horn	Cambridge, Massachusetts (M)