[pdftex] Problem: testing MkIV on pdftex-t manual source
Taco Hoekwater
taco at elvenkind.com
Wed Apr 21 07:29:29 CEST 2010
Hi,
Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>
> And why Martin Schr\"oder instead of Martin Schröder? The last time I
> wrote \"o instead of ö in a document was in 1994, just before LaTeX-2e
> was released. But both, LaTeX and Context, support UTF-8 now. It
> allows you to have text written in Vietnamese, Greek, Arabic, Chinese,
> Devanagari... in one and the same TeX source file.
The first version of the pdftex manual dates from 1996 or so, at a
time when sending 8-bit files over the net was far from reliable. And
why go back to change a definition that works (well, did work, until
now)?
Best wishes,
Taco
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