[luatex] lua-inputenc

Arthur Reutenauer arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org
Mon Feb 16 18:58:55 CET 2009


	Hello,

  Just throwing in thoughts, I unfortunately haven't had time to read
the discussion in detail.

> I might have found a better solution that (unexpectedly) works: calling 
> inputenc after lua-inputenc...

  Actually, another question is how all that interacts with fontenc: in
pdfLaTeX, if you're using inputenc, you should use fontenc also,
otherwise you're just asking for trouble.  Hence, in LuaLaTeX +
lua-inputenc, wouldn't it be possible to simply use the LICR internally,
and let fontenc convert it to the font's encoding with the *enc.def
files?

  Of course, this would give very bad results with OpenType fonts, for
example, but I think it's not unreasonable to require LaTeX users who
want to use OpenType fonts with LuaTeX to encode all their documents in
UTF-8, full stop.  lua-inputenc should, as I see it, care for backward
compatibility first.

	Arthur


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