[pdftex] Open type fonts / Omega / ...

[Michael Chapman]

On Tuesday 05 February 2002 14:42, Hans Hagen wrote:
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> this is the pdftex (i.e. good old tex) list; 

Thought I might be showing my ignorance, but did not think my question was 
"off list". Apologies, if after the following explanation, it still is:

Good _old_  TeX was plain ASCII, unless I'm wrong, nut now we have methods 
for both input and output encoding.
I feed some bizarre encodings into pdfLatex. I suppose I could convert them 
to something more standard, but I tend to use files "as is" if the encoding 
is accepted.

I was getting the feeling that the days of receiving non-ASCII single byte 
encoded text files were numbered, and that before long everything 
(idealistically!) will be in a UCS flavour (with UTF-8) as a front runner, 
perhaps?
I just cannot see myself  (?ourselves) feeding say French text in UTF-8 
through a converter to get 'old' ISO-8859-1 to feed into pdfLatex ... but I 
have been wrong before.

Kester Clegg's comments (admittedly about ?output encodings) seemed to raise 
a mere musing to the level of a practical question, but one which I felt 
needed experience perhaps more than (just) knowledge to answer ... 

Michael.