[XeTeX] Converting legacy encodings to utf-8

[Peter Heslin]

Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> writes:

> I would typically use  
> TECkit <http://scripts.sil.org/teckit> to create mappings for such  
> encodings.

Thanks for the tip.  If I had known about TECkit, it probably would have
been quicker to use that to create a mapping than it was to debug my
elisp.  On the other hand, my approach adds support for both the Ibycus
and Babel (LGR) Greek encodings for free.

> If the source text is an industry-standard codepage such as MacRoman  
> or Windows CP1250 or whatever, then tools like iconv will do nicely.

Unfortunately, there never were any industry-standard single-byte
encodings for ancient Greek.

> Or in the case of "standard" TeX input like \`a, an option is to just  
> load the xunicode package (thanks, Ross!) and leave the source file  
> as simple ASCII.

I don't think xunicode supports Greek.

-- 
Peter Heslin (http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin)