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[Apostolos Syropoulos]

> UCS-2 is an obsolete transformation format as it only gives access to 
> 6.25% of Unicode's encoding space. The only really useful Unicode 
> transformation formats are UTF-32 aka UCS-4, UTF-16 (LE and BE) and UTF-8.

True, but Omega was developed many years ago. At that time UCS-2 was
the default Unicode encoding. UTF-32 and UCS-4 are more recent developments,
which were ignored by the Omega team since they actually stopped working
on the system 6-7 years ago.

> Can Omega or Aleph seamlessly process characters outside of the BMP?
 
Of course not! As I said Omega is a dead project. But the point is that
it was the first Unicode-aware TeX system. Thus, what was claimed in
the project description was simply false. 

A.S.


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


      
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