<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 9:09 AM Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute) <<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk">P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p>OK, thank you, understood Don. But why, then, do you want to
"take a text file with TeX-style coding of -- --- `` ‘’ etc.¹ and
output the corresponding Unicode characters", when in your
manifesto you write "Unicode needs to be a first-class citizen.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Conceivable there will be a transition and such translation would be absolutely necessary. You can't go very far</div><div>with spellers, grammar analyzers, ePub generation ... without it.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p>There’s no reason in 2020 for a document writer to have to type <code>\’a</code>
instead of <code>á</code> in a document. UTF-8 is the new 7-bit
ASCII." ? Who, these days, writes -- --- `` ‘’ when they can so
easily write –, —, “, ” ?<br></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just the entire world. Even TeX IDEs insert such sequences in the text instead of Unicode when you make a</div><div>choice within a menu or a pictogram.</div><div><br></div><div>I get a sneak-peak at thousands of math papers/books on the way to publication every month and I would say it is extremely rare to see anyone using – or —. The use of “ and ” is increasing over time though.</div><div><br></div><div>Paulo Ney</div></div></div>