Hi Gerben,
Regarding the text encodings understood by mkii and mkiv, one can always use UTF-8 in both.
Unless you have some very uncommon characters in your ascii file, the migration from ascii to utf-8 is quite easy, at least on a Mac (I don’t know what OS you are using): for instance you can open the file in an application such as Smultron or Fraise
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33751/fraise
and then in the « Text » menu choose « Text encoding » and then « UTF-8 ». After that you save your file: now it is in UTF-8 encoding and can be typeset in mkiv, as far as the commands you use in your TeX file is compatible with mkiv.
Best regards: OK
On 02 Aug 2014, at 15:24, Gerben Wierda
On 02 Aug 2014, at 15:12, Gerben Wierda
wrote: I suspected as such. I’m afraid to move to mkiv at this stage of my project. Is mkiv downwards compatible with mkii? What must I do to see if my project compiles with mkiv? I’m running currently commands like
Later for me. I read:
Mark IV needs your input to be in UTF-8. Legacy documents using 8bit encodings have to be converted to utf-8 before they are usable.
that enough is a show stopper for me at this point. All my input is in ascii code edited with a simple emacs-like editor. Moving to UTF8 at this stage is out of the question unless I get my editor to do that.
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