[pdftex] PassiveTeX

[David Carlisle]

> can passivetex handle other encodings than latin1? A while ago I
> tred to use passivetex to convert some docbook (vietnamese,
> encoded as UTF8) to pdf, but without success.

xmltex (on which it's based) is based internally on utf8 consistently.
All other encodings are supported by mapping to utf8, basically any 8bit
extension of ascii can easily be made to work by the addition of an
encoding file, other encodings are probably harder. But utf8 should
definitely have worked, and should in fact be the default. latin1 should
only be used if the FO file starts <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

David

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