From notebook22312 at gmail.com Sun Feb 2 15:59:04 2020 From: notebook22312 at gmail.com (notebook) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 23:59:04 +0900 Subject: [pdftex] UTF-8 support by default Message-ID: <7486baa5-4c3e-2694-8b02-210887b00956@gmail.com> Hello, are there any plans of making pdftex work with utf-8 characters by default? I know, that there is XeLaTeX, which claims to support utf-8 by default (which is only a claim, but not the entire truth). The reason for asking here is, because I think it would be nice to have the default tool offer everything needed for writing a text document. The current situation puts the user in need of understanding encodings first. Regards Chris From joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk Sun Feb 2 23:40:21 2020 From: joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk (Joseph Wright) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 22:40:21 +0000 Subject: [pdftex] UTF-8 support by default In-Reply-To: <7486baa5-4c3e-2694-8b02-210887b00956@gmail.com> References: <7486baa5-4c3e-2694-8b02-210887b00956@gmail.com> Message-ID: <48d452c9-ebc4-af7b-2bf3-91d858461baf@morningstar2.co.uk> On 02/02/2020 14:59, notebook wrote: > Hello, > > are there any plans of making pdftex work with utf-8 characters by default? > > I know, that there is XeLaTeX, which claims to support utf-8 by default > (which is only a claim, but not the entire truth). > > The reason for asking here is, because I think it would be nice to have > the default tool offer everything needed for writing a text document. > The current situation puts the user in need of understanding encodings > first. > > > Regards > Chris pdfTeX is never going to be native UTF-8, unlike XeTeX or LuaTeX. With LaTeX, the use of active chars allows UTF-8 as the default encoding, but that code is not something anyone is going to add to plain pdfTeX. Joseph P.S. XeTeX *is* natively UTF-8, so I'm unsure what you mean by 'it's only a claim'.