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[Apostolos Syropoulos]

>   No, UTF-8 input is not *direct* in Omega; you need an OTP for that.
> By default it inputs 8-bit characters.  And it does not process
> characters in UCS-2 form, it simply handles 16-bit characters (which was
> a novelty at the time, at least in Europe, but that does not make it

May I remind you that UCS-2 was the internal character set used by default
by all old versions of Microsoft Operating Systems? So this was a novelty
even for the States (btw, John lives and works in Australia!). In addition, according to 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16

UCS-2 is a fixed-length encoding where each character is encoded by two bytes.

> support Unicode – even only the BMP – out of the box).  That's precisely
> the point of my project.  In any case, I see little reason to try and
> improve Unicode support in Omega or Aleph which are completely abandoned
> by their developers, as you said yourself, and that's why I didn't
> mention them.

Although they are abandoned projects still one has to mention them, if
he/she wants to have a complete and fair account of how things happened. 
Omitting Omega from an account is simply unfair, when even the new
TeXLive binaries will include an Omega!

A.S.


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


      
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