[XeTeX] XeTeX at GSC

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

The first paragraph of this Google Code-Summer Code says:

>Direct UTF-8 input has only been made possible fairly recently, by two
extensions to the TeX >engine called LuaTeX and XeTeX (of course, TeX
could already process UTF-8-encoded text thanks >to appropriate macros).
General support for Unicode properties is rather poor.
 
 This obviously is false! They simply forget Omega and for that matter Aleph. The
Omega system has as its default input character set the UCS-2 characters set and
one can easily adjust Omega to make it able to process UTF-8  encoded files.  In addition,
this same statement is unfair to both LuaTeX and XeTeX, since both system have been
designed to solve different problems. For example, the real novelty introduced by XeTeX
is its ability to directly use OpenType fonts.  On the other hand, any work that will
improve Unicode processing (not just UTF-8!), is definitely a step  forward. 

A.S.
 

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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece
http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo
http://asyropoulos.wordpress.com



----- Original Message ----
> From: Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at mac.com>
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 11:57:32 AM
> Subject: [XeTeX] XeTeX at GSC
> 
> Just saw this:
> 
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/tex/appinfo.html?csaid=8BC22C657B7F0D0E
> 
> linked from there:
> 
> http://www.tug.org/gsoc/ideas.html
> 
> Sounds exciting!
> 
> To Arthur: best of luck!
> 
> Bruno Voisin
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