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

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.

On 02 Aug 2014, at 15:24, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl> wrote:

On 02 Aug 2014, at 15:12, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl> 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.

G
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________