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

[Chris Rowley <C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk>]

Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote --
> Eric Maryniak <e.maryniak@pobox.com> asks:
> 
> >> Q: is there a (La)TeX variant, style, documentclass option, ...?, where you
> >>    can use Unicode?
> 
> This isn't the appropriate list for Unicode and LaTeX questions.

That depends on whether you think that Unicode should be connected to
fonts. 

In fact, this particular point is not related to fonts so this is true.

But neither is it related only to omega since this is not asking for
anything to use 16-bit encoded (anyhow) characters, it is only asking
for the support of some TeX syntax, such as \u{20AC}, which allows one
to input a character known by its unicode number.

It may be sensible and feasible for LaTeX to provide some support for
this at some stage.


Chris Rowley  ---  On behalf of the LaTeX3 Project Team