[pdftex] \texorpdfstring and \ge \le

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 05:51:35AM +0300, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Heiko Oberdiek

Sorry about the date.

> <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 02:01:54PM +0200, Thierry Bouche wrote:
> 
> > Option `unicode' uses UTF-16BE for bookmark strings, however
> > the TeX input also have characters with one byte (A-Z, a-z, ...),
> > therefore \pdfstringdef must translate the one-byte-characters
> > in characters with two bytes.
> >  In case of \042\145 it is unclear, whether this is one character
> > or two. Therefore \9 or \8 marks a character of two bytes.
> >
> > Yours sincerely
> >  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>
> > --
> 
> Does it mean that one can replace \9 by \8  and v.v.?

In general no. But "\8" could be replaced by "\900". The other
case -- replacing "\900" by "\8" -- makes more sense (one token
instead of three).

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>
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