[XeTeX] Place for XeTeX packages?

[Jonathan Kew]

On 17 Oct 2004, at 3:26 am, Will Robertson wrote:

> Hi [Ross]
>
> utf8accents (still?) isn't locatable through google at the moment - 
> may I suggest that it and other relevant XeTeX packages get put 
> somewhere central? If not on CTAN, then maybe having a links page 
> associated with the mailing list would be a good idea, so even though 
> (e.g.) you'll be hosting utf8accents, Jon'll have the 
> adobetypeclassics files, and I'll have my package - at least there'll 
> be a place where people can go and see exactly what's available.
>

How about if I also add a "related packages" section to the XeTeX site, 
with links to these items?

BTW, Ross, I've been meaning to suggest something: would you consider 
changing the name of your utf8accents, by any chance? Reason: it's not 
actually related to the UTF-8 encoding form. XeTeX reads UTF-16 Unicode 
files just as happily, and macros don't know the difference. If/when I 
get around to supporting legacy encodings for input files (e.g., 
\XeTeXinputfileencoding "MacRoman"), everything will still be Unicode 
internally, and the exact same macros will still apply. They're not 
interpreting UTF-8 sequences (like an inputenc option for traditional 
TeX would have to); they're accessing Unicode accented characters from 
TeX-style escape sequences (also in Unicode).

So I'd rather see this package called "unicodeaccents", for example. 
What do you think?

JK