[OS X TeX] UTF-8 url.sty?

[Gerben Wierda]

On Oct 24, 2004, at 16:37, Maarten Sneep wrote:

>
> On 24 okt 2004, at 14:44, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>>> The url.sty problem is solved: As Bruno pointed out, XeTeX needs a 
>>> UTF8 version
>>> of url.sty. Opening and saving it as UTF8 did the trick.
>>
>> Would it be safe to replace url.sty with an UTF-8 version for all 
>> TeXs?
>
> I doubt it, as this would replace a single byte with two or more bytes 
> in the input-stream. But then, I'm not sure why Donald Arsenau used 
> Mac Roman encoded macro names in the first place. There is a comment 
> that he intends to hook into inputenc, and you might ask him (on 
> c.t.t.) when and if this might happen (and explain shortly what the 
> current problem is).

I'll add an UTF-8 url.sty to gwTeX in the share.gwtex/xetex 
subdirectory, so it will only be found by XeTeX.

G

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