On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:36:24 +0000, Adam Lindsay
Hi there.
Hi,
I've worked on a bit of Unicode (output) for ConTeXt recently, and I noticed that Vietnamese needs a little bit more work. There's already viscii input and x5 encoding output (apparently) working in ConTeXt.
With current vnTeX (vntex.sf.net), we can use viscii, tcvn, vps and unicode (utf8) for input encoding.
As I understand it, UTF-8 support will then require an update to ConTeXt's unic-* files (giving named glyphs for input) and then a slight update to the enco-x5 file. I guess what's really needed are canonical internal names (like 'ygrave' or 'ohornhook') for ConTeXt's use.
Don't be afraid: it's not difficult, just a bit tedious. So I should ask, Mr Penguin, how are you with sed, Perl, or Ruby?
I could use Perl and sed (for simple jobs) without problem :)
Also, do you have any good references for character tables for the encoding(s?) that VnTeX uses? I don't have it installed on my machine (yet).
You can download vnTeX from http://vntex.sourceforge.net Regards, -- http://vnoss.org/forum/