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Re: Q: Unicode available/planned for (La)TeX(3)?

To: Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: Q: Unicode available/planned for (La)TeX(3)?
From: Chris Rowley <C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:13:04 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: tex-fonts@math.utah.edu
In-Reply-To: <19990225180459.A22334@boole.maths.tcd.ie>
References: <3.0.5.32.19990225145805.00b37850@ip005.niwi.knaw.nl> <19990225180459.A22334@boole.maths.tcd.ie>


> 
> The trouble with this is that TeX fonts can only hold 256 characters,
> while unicode is almost infinite.

Worse than that is that unicode is not a font encoding (however big an
actual font may be one day).


chris

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