[OS X TeX] Suggestions about input encoding - utf-8, latin1, latin9??

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 12 janv. 06 à 14:45, Peter Dyballa a écrit :

> The differences between both Latin sets are at eight positions:
>
> oct   dec   hex  c    UCS2    UTF-8    
> description                    | c    UCS2     UTF-8     description
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> -------------------------------------
> 244 · 164 · A4 · ¤ · U+00A4 · C2 A4 · CURRENCY SIGN      	     · €  
> · U+20AC · E2 82 AC · EURO SIGN
> 246 · 166 · A6 · ¦ · U+00A6 · C2 A6 · BROKEN BAR         	     · Š  
> · U+0160 ·    C5 A0 · LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
> 250 · 168 · A8 · ¨ · U+00A8 · C2 A8 · DIAERESIS          	     · š  
> · U+0161 ·    C5 A1 · LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
> 264 · 180 · B4 · ´ · U+00B4 · C2 B4 · ACUTE ACCENT       	     · Ž  
> · U+017D ·    C5 BD · LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
> 270 · 184 · B8 · ¸ · U+00B8 · C2 B8 · CEDILLA            	     · ž  
> · U+017E ·    C5 BE · LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
> 274 · 188 · BC · ¼ · U+00BC · C2 BC · VULGAR FRACTION ONE  
> QUARTER    · Œ · U+0152 ·    C5 92 · LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
> 275 · 189 · BD · ½ · U+00BD · C2 BD · VULGAR FRACTION ONE  
> HALF       · œ · U+0153 ·    C5 93 · LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
> 276 · 190 · BE · ¾ · U+00BE · C2 BE · VULGAR FRACTION THREE  
> QUARTERS · Ÿ · U+0178 ·    C5 B8 · LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH  
> DIAERESIS
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I think one loses nothing when ¨, ´, and ¸ go away -- who would use  
> them? To me it's OK when the fractions go away (they still exist in  
> TS1, text companion encoding) and I now can write the name of  
> Albert Marcœur -- almost par-cœur! (I can send you a TeX source  
> which too shows the two encodings explicitly.)

For those, like me, who knew nothing about Latin9 (aka iso-8859-15),  
a bit of googling finally returned:

<http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html>
<http://alis.isoc.org/codage/iso8859/jeuxiso.en.htm>

That said, from these sites as well as a few others I got the  
impression Latin 9 never really made it to the mainstream, and is now  
more-or-less considered deprecated and replaced by UTF8. Is this the  
case?

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