Re: [MiKTeX] Duplicate MikTeX installation?

[WinEdt T. <su...@wi...>]

> 2010/5/15 George N. White III <gn...@gm...>: 
>
> wrote number of interesting things but there is one I want to ask about: 
>
>> WinEDT is based on very old technology, so may not survive future
>> upgrades to Windows. A big part of recent TeX development efforts
>> have gone to improving support for all the world's languages, which
>> means Unicode fonts/encodings that are far beyond the current WinEDT
>> capabilities.

The current version of WinEdt uses ANSI as a working format and it
can only handle unicode (utf8) documents that can be translated
into a single code page (old technology indeed). This restriction
was caused by the fact that Delphi (until recently) did not have
proper Unicode support and it would take a lot of work to customize
VCL and deal with all resulting oddities... 

> There is a note about plans for Unicode support in a future version
> on the WinEDT site, but dependent on a new version of the Delphi
> development environment.

Delphi 2010 has a decent support for Unicode and the work on
Unicode version of WinEdt 6.1 has already begun. It will take a few
months to iron-out all the problems and optimize the performance
but a reasonably stable beta version will be out before the end of
year. 

I agree that non-unicode applications likely won't survive future
Windows upgrades and they already suffer many problems with
Clipboard exchange and keyboard processing... It is time to move
on. 

Best regards, 

alex