[OS X TeX] Suggestions about input encoding - utf-8, latin1, latin9??

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.01.2006 um 13:47 schrieb Bastian Philipps:

> What about latin1 or latin9?

Go latin9! That's the right choice for accented characters in Western  
Europe, could be OK too for some parts of Southern Europe, has the €  
and ligatures like œ or Æ. TeXShop 2.05++ has it now too.


The differences between both Latin sets are at eight positions:

oct   dec   hex  c    UCS2    UTF-8   description                     
| c    UCS2     UTF-8     description
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-----------------------------------
244 · 164 · A4 · ¤ · U+00A4 · C2 A4 · CURRENCY SIGN      	     · € · U 
+20AC · E2 82 AC · EURO SIGN
246 · 166 · A6 · ¦ · U+00A6 · C2 A6 · BROKEN BAR         	     · Š · U 
+0160 ·    C5 A0 · LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
250 · 168 · A8 · ¨ · U+00A8 · C2 A8 · DIAERESIS          	     · š · U 
+0161 ·    C5 A1 · LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
264 · 180 · B4 · ´ · U+00B4 · C2 B4 · ACUTE ACCENT       	     · Ž · U 
+017D ·    C5 BD · LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
270 · 184 · B8 · ¸ · U+00B8 · C2 B8 · CEDILLA            	     · ž · U 
+017E ·    C5 BE · LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
274 · 188 · BC · ¼ · U+00BC · C2 BC · VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER     
· Œ · U+0152 ·    C5 92 · LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
275 · 189 · BD · ½ · U+00BD · C2 BD · VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF        
· œ · U+0153 ·    C5 93 · LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
276 · 190 · BE · ¾ · U+00BE · C2 BE · VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS  
· Ÿ · U+0178 ·    C5 B8 · LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-------------------------------------------------------------

I think one loses nothing when ¨, ´, and ¸ go away -- who would use  
them? To me it's OK when the fractions go away (they still exist in  
TS1, text companion encoding) and I now can write the name of Albert  
Marcœur -- almost par-cœur! (I can send you a TeX source which too  
shows the two encodings explicitly.)

The UTF encodings in TeX are not maintained, so I wouldn't use them  
without necessity. Besides they seem to have changed over the years  
so there would be a need to have on all systems the same UTF version.


--
Greetings

   Pete

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