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Encodings and Regimes - Old Content (view source)
Revision as of 10:34, 14 July 2005
, 10:34, 14 July 2005link to Fonts
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The [http://unicode.org/ Unicode] effort clearly shows that 256 characters cannot possibly contain the world's languages. However (with the exception of modern variants like [[Omega]] and [[XeTeX]]), TeX is an old system, and will only deal with 256 characters per font. Similarly, many "legacy" file encodings on current operating systems will attempt to shoehorn a set of characters into eight bytes.
