Hans Hagen wrote:
So why not mapping the characters to unicode first and defining the mapping from unicode to \TeXcommand only once? regi-* files (at least in the meaning they have now) could be prepared automatically by a script, less error-prone and without the need to say "Some more definitions will be added later."
you mean ...
\defineactivetoken 123 {\uchar{...}{...}}
it is an option but it's much slower and take much more memory
I may be wrong, of course, but I think Mojca proposed something different (and something that should be really easy to implement): Have the unicode vectors stored in a format easily parsed by an external ruby script and create the regi-* files from that, using the conversion tables provided by your operating system or iconv or wherever ruby gets them from. regards, Christopher