David Kastrup wrote:
Since LuaTeX has its own complications to take care off with regard to utf8, I actually would want to prepare this as a LuaTeX patch. Backporting to PDFTeX should be straightforward.
hm, i was thinking that it would be some circular buffer between reading from file and the normal tex reader (i.e. tex gets bytes and already handles the utf8 part); so it should work for pdftex too there is no need to change the current luatex input handling since one can overload reading from file as well as preprocess input lines Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------