Re: [Db2latex-devel] normalize-scape.mod.xsl

[Torsten B. <br...@ph...>]

Halloechen!

James Devenish <j-d...@us...> writes:

> [...]
>
> For DB2LaTeX, there are three graceful options built in (though neither
> is enabled by default). The test_entities folder (which should probably
> have been named test_characters) demonstrates this. The current options
> are:
>
> [...]
>  - Use Unicode characters directly. E.g. <xsl:output encoding="utf-8"/>.
>    This allows fullest use of the DocBook localisations as-is (though
>    you will need to install the 'unicode' LaTeX package). This option is
>    intended for documents where the incidence of non-Latin characters is
>    high. The example files for this are test_entities/utf-8.*

This sounds perfect.  Then what is the disadvantage of this option?
Why isn't it used always?

BTW, recently the LaTeX3 project team introduced the new inputenc
option utf-8 (or utf8?) for testing.

Tschoe,
Torsten.

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