Re: Bug#402118: debiandoc-sgml: Please allow alternative dependency on texlive
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 03:28 +0100, Danai SAE-HAN wrote:
[ UTF-8 and TeX ]
> There are packages like utf8x that are under development, but IMHO
> that just takes too much time and we need a quick fix. UTF-8 has been
> around for many years now.
Actually utff8x (or more appropriately ucs.sty) are no longer under
development. At least I haven't heared of anyone responding to the
original author's orphaning. IMO the real way forward does not come from
clever macro programming but from extensions to the underlying TeX
engine that support Unicode. In principle omega has been able to do that
for quite some time. Unfortunately almost nobody knows how to use it.
However, now there is XeTeX that has native Unicode (and OpenType)
support. And the pdfTeX successor (luaTeX) will have similar abilities.
> Two things are needed though: an updated Unicode.sfd file in
> freetype1-tools (I just filed a bug report), and a DFSG-free font that
> covers most scripts.
Why do you want a single font? Given that one anyway needs some sort of
mark up to switch hyphenation patterns for different languages, it is
quite easy to integrate font switches there as well.
cheerio
ralf
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